A nationalistic group led by Mattathias the Hasmonean and his son Judah Maccabee, and a traditional religious group known as the Chasidim, the forerunners of the Pharisees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Queens Gazette] Reference

Do you know about the fierce ideological battles between Chasidim and Misnagdim?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Peretz on the Cairo Speech:] Reference

The former Chasidim used to sit still one hour, and then pray for one hour, and then again sit still for one hour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala] Reference

Some of the very pious, especially the Chasidim, wear a girdle around the waist to separate the upper part of the body from the lower.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wednesday the Rabbi Got Wet]

Fearing a repeat, Schein grew a beard and donned a cap in an effort to better blend in with the Lubavitch Chasidim who mount a massive kapparot operation each year in Crown Heights.    From Wordnik.com.  [20 « October « 2008 « Niqnaq] Reference

With a wing and a prayer book in their hands, the Chasidim shlug, or swing, the birds around their heads while reciting a prayer before lining up to have the chickens ritually slaughtered.    From Wordnik.com.  [20 « October « 2008 « Niqnaq] Reference

It was the final few miles in my parents northward migration from Alvington Crescent, past Stoke Newington and into Stamford Hillthen, as now, home to tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Chasidim.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Question of Honour] Reference

A group of Chasidim had begun screaming prayers at.    From Wordnik.com.  [Articles] Reference

Softball/ISL quarterfinals/Meridian pulls off upset of Chasidim.    From Wordnik.com.  [Haaretz.com headlines RSS] Reference

How is Chabad is so successful in places where there are no Chasidim?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Your Moral Leader] Reference

And it really smacks of male chauvinism - deny it though these Chasidim will.    From Wordnik.com.  [Emes Ve-Emunah] Reference

Chasidim are a peace loving people who define the quality of Chesed - kindness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Emes Ve-Emunah] Reference

That said the reaction by the Chasidim of Satmar yet again created a Chilul HaShem.    From Wordnik.com.  [Emes Ve-Emunah] Reference

Rabonim - Roshei Yeshivos - hard working leaders for their kehilla - Talmidim - Chasidim.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vos Iz Neias - (Yiddish:What's News?)] Reference

This was 770, with hundreds of black-frocked Chasidim singing and dancing while poor Cosmic X stared confused.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beyond BT - The Baal Teshuva site for Baalei Teshuva and Other Growth Oriented Jews] Reference

And he won the prize for best children's costume at the annual Purim costume competition sponsored by R 'Areleh's Chasidim.    From Wordnik.com.  [Emes Ve-Emunah] Reference

In its 13-9 win, Meridian jumped out to a 4-0 lead, but Chasidim looked poised for big rallies in both the third and fourth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Haaretz.com headlines RSS] Reference

Why does the most radical element of Chasidim have the right to insist that it is their standard must be everyone's standard?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Emes Ve-Emunah] Reference

At the end the Chasidim started singing something, I think it was some of the Aramaic that we say at the end of the selichot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beyond BT - The Baal Teshuva site for Baalei Teshuva and Other Growth Oriented Jews] Reference

(JTA) -- More than 300 people, nearly all Orthodox Jews and Chasidim, have contracted the mumps in an upstate New York county.    From Wordnik.com.  [JTA - Recent News] Reference

In an upset that shook up the Holyland Series playoff bracket, Meridian stunned number-two seed Chasidim and advanced to the semifinals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Haaretz.com headlines RSS] Reference

Helped along when Israel assigned Kfar Chabad large swaths of land for agriculture and housing, shortly after Chasidim settled there, the village began to grow.    From Wordnik.com.  [lubavitch.com Chabad-Lubavitch news site] Reference

Mumps outbreak strikes Orthodox Jews in N.Y. More than 300 people, nearly all Orthodox Jews and Chasidim, have contracted the mumps in an upstate New Y.rk county.    From Wordnik.com.  [Articles] Reference

You shouldn't be surprised at all, the Rebbe would usually defer to RMF when it came to complex halachik rulings (and on many occasions sent Chasidim to RMF for a psak din).    From Wordnik.com.  [Vos Iz Neias - (Yiddish:What's News?)] Reference

Another rally drew Chasidim within two, but Meridian picked up insurance runs and then shut down the would-be Chasidic dynasty, securing a semifinal matchup against Milk and Cookies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Haaretz.com headlines RSS] Reference

Two sects joined his standard with peculiar ardor — the Zadikim, who observed the written law of Moses, from whom the Sadducees of later times sprang, and the more zealous and austere Chasidim, who added to the law the traditions of the elders, from whom the Pharisees came.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ancient States and Empires] Reference

The other Chasidim may believe it as well, but we don’t receive exposure to it, as they aren’t actively engaged in kiruv in the way that Chabad is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inter-Lubav Infighting Leaves 770 in Shambles | Jewschool] Reference

For, like Moses Mendelssohn, in some other respects the antagonist of the Chasidim, Baalshem accepted the declaration of Rabbi Judah in the name of Rab: "Forty days before the creation of a girl, a proclamation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Delight and Other Papers] Reference

He hated the Chasidim and the other black hats, and would make comments about them. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines] Reference

"You shouldn't be surprised at all, the Rebbe would usually defer to RMF when it came to complex halachik rulings (and on many occasions sent Chasidim to RMF for a psak din).    From Wordnik.com.  [Vos Iz Neias - (Yiddish:What's News?)] Reference