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Hasidism, a movement many believed had passed its golden age, has had an extraordinary revival since it was nearly decimated in the Holocaust and repressed in the Soviet Union. Hasidic communities, now settled primarily in North America and Israel, have reversed the losses they suffered and are growing exponentially. With powerful attachments to the past, mysticism, community, tradition, and charismatic leadership, Hasidism seems the opposite of contemporary Western culture, yet it has thrived in the democratic countries and culture of the West. How? Who Will Lead Us? finds the answers to this question in the fascinating story of five contemporary Hasidic dynasties and their handling of the delicate issue of leadership and succession. Revolving around the central figure of the rebbe, the book explores two dynasties with too few successors, two with too many successors, and one that believes their last rebbe continues to lead them even after his death. Samuel C. Heilman, recognized as a foremost expert on modern Jewish Orthodoxy, here provides outsiders with the essential guide to continuity in the Hasidic world.

Hasidism. --- Leadership --- Religious aspects --- Judaism. --- charismatic religious figure. --- community leaders. --- community. --- hasidic jews. --- hasidism. --- jewish dynasty. --- jewish history. --- jewish orthodoxy. --- judaism. --- mysticism. --- north america and israel. --- religious revival. --- religious studies. --- tradition. --- western religion.

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What would you do if you questioned your religious faith, but revealing that would cause you to lose your family and the only way of life you had ever known? This book tells the fascinating, often heart-wrenching stories of married ultra-Orthodox Jewish men and women in twenty-first-century New York who lead 'double lives' in order to protect those they love.

Ultra-Orthodox Jews --- Judaism and secularism --- Social media --- Ultra-orthodox Jews --- Cultural assimilation. --- Religious aspects --- Judaism. --- History --- Relations --- Non-traditional Jews. --- Ashkenazic Jewish Orthodoxy. --- Barbara Myerhoff. --- Becoming Unorthodox. --- Bible. --- Biblical. --- Hasid. --- Hasidic Rebel. --- Hasidic. --- Haskalah. --- Hella Winston. --- ILC. --- Jblogger. --- Jewish Enlighteners. --- Jewish Enlightenment. --- Jewish Orthodoxy. --- Jewish bloggers. --- Jewish blogs. --- Jewish studies. --- Jewish theology. --- Keith Basso. --- Lynn Davidman. --- Menachem Friedman. --- Mindy Blumenthal. --- Mishpacha. --- Moses. --- Number Our Days. --- Nurit Stadler. --- Rabbi Tessler. --- Sabbath. --- Samuel Heilman. --- Shtreimel. --- Tanya Luhrmann. --- The Rebbe. --- Ultra-Orthodoxy. --- Unchosen. --- WhatsApp. --- When God Talks Back. --- Wisdom Sits in Places. --- Yeshiva Fundamentalism. --- Yeshivish. --- Yiddish. --- Yinglish. --- anthropology of religion. --- anti-internet rallies. --- asifes. --- aufgeklert. --- banishment. --- closeted. --- commandments and prohibitions. --- crisis of emine. --- crisis of faith. --- discursive traditions. --- double lifers. --- emine kashes. --- emune. --- excommunication. --- frum. --- glitching. --- haskule. --- in the closet. --- kaylim. --- koyfer. --- maskilim. --- matan toyre. --- mitzves. --- old Testament. --- rabbinic advisors. --- rabbinic leaders. --- rebbes. --- religion. --- religious exile. --- shul. --- synagogue. --- teknologia. --- ultra-Orthodox bloggers. --- ultra-Orthodox life coaches. --- women’s studies. --- yayster hore. --- Cultural assimilation --- Judaism --- Non-traditional Jews