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Belz is Israel’s second largest Hasidic group. In 2022, for the first time, the sect agreed to teach the core curriculum in its elementary schools, including math, science, Hebrew and English. Many schools refuse to teach core curriculum and refuse state funds rather than accept what they regard as secular interference in religious studies.
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Leftist Jewish leaders gained prominence. In 1919, the...
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Rabbi Naphtali was known by his acronym as the "Netziv" of...
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The Belz Hasidic Dynasty was founded by Rabbi Shalom Rokeaḥ (1783–1855), a devoted disciple of Ya‘akov Yitsḥak Horowitz, the so-called Seer of Lublin. Rokeaḥ established his famous court in Belz around 1817, attracting many followers from Poland, Galicia, and Hungary. He was known as both a miracle worker and a Talmudist, and ...
The Ashkenazi Jewish community in Belz was established circa 14th century. In 1665, the Jews in Belz received equal rights and duties. The town became home to a Hasidic dynasty in the early 19th century.
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The Belz Great Synagogue ( Hebrew: בעלזא בית המדרש הגדול; Belz Beis HaMedrash HaGadol) is one of the largest synagogues in Israel. It was built by the Belz Hasidic community with financial help from its supporters and admirers around the world. Planning.
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The Shapira are a Polish Hasidic family that established several Hasidic dynasties in the nineteenth century. One was established at Belz, a small town in Ukraine. By the beginning of the twentieth century the majority of the town’s 6,000 residents were Jews.
Name of a smali town in Galicia and of the Hasidic dynasty founded there by Rabbi Shalom Rokeah (1779–1855). Shalom was succeeded as both the Rebbe and the town Rabbi of Belz by his son, Joshua, who was in turn succeeded by his son, Issachar Dov, succeeded by his son, Aaron (1880–1957) who escaped the Holocaust to set up his ‘court’ in Tel Aviv.
BELZ, one of the most important ḥasidic dynasties of Galicia, so called after the township where it took up residence (see previous entry). The founder of the dynasty, shalom roke'aḤ (1779–1855), came from a distinguished family descended from R. Eleazer *Roke'aḥ of Amsterdam.
