The first Grussgott was Reb Gedaliah of Kaliv, Hungary, in the 18 th century. Gedaliah lived at the time that the secular authorities were assigning last names to Jews. It seems that he was assigned ...

A Jew once dreamed he was a rebbe. He shared his dream with the Bostoner Rebbe. The Bostoner was unimpressed, asking, “did any chasidim dream that you were their rebbe?” People who find rebbes and ...

Samuel Heilman’s portrayal of the reappearance of Munkatch chasidim has little to do with “remnants of chasidic Munkatch looking for someone with chasidic royal blood,” as described by Jonathan Mark ( ...