This is the first installment in ‘Irving Bunim: A Fire in His Soul,’ the most recent series of articles from Jewish Press Online contributor,, PhD  The Vaad Hatzala had been established in November ...

9 A young Hasidic pilgrim adjusts his hat. This year, the Jewish New Year according to the Gregorian calendar will come on October 3 and last for two days. However, Jews celebrate all holidays ...

The streets are plastered with signs in Hebrew for the pilgrims who come to pray at the tomb of Rabbi Nachman, the great-grandson of the founder of Hasidic ... in Ukraine’s Jewish community ...

More than 30,000 Orthodox Jewish pilgrims are thought to have congregated in the Ukrainian city of Uman for Rosh Hashanah, a key holiday in the Jewish calendar, some leaving war in the Middle East ...

An estimated 33,000 Hasidic pilgrims recently arrived in the Ukrainian city of Uman to celebrate Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year celebration which began Oct. 2 and will last until Oct. 4. Every ...

Orthodox Jews dance at the tomb of Rabbi Nachman, the great grandson of the founder of Hasidic movement, in the town of Uman, 200 kilometers (125 miles) south of Ukraine's capital Kyiv ...

Thousands of pilgrims have joined an annual gathering to mark the Jewish new year in the central ... the great-grandson of the founder of Hasidic movement. Despite Ukrainian and Israeli diplomats ...

The streets are plastered with signs in Hebrew for the pilgrims who come to pray at the tomb of Rabbi Nachman, the great-grandson of the founder of Hasidic movement.

Thousands of Orthodox Jewish pilgrims converge on the Ukrainian city of Uman every year — Anatolii STEPANOV Like thousands of other pilgrims, Rony Eli-Ya travelled from his home in Israel to the ...

This year, more than 30,000 Orthodox Jewish pilgrims are thought to have congregated in Uman, home to the burial place of Hasidic Jewish leader Rabbi Nachman of Breslov. Crowds of pilgrims lined ...