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A [[Hasidic dynasties|Hasidic sect]] originally located in the town of Belz in eastern Galicia near Lvov in what is now Ukraine. 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 maintained a close relationship with the Galician non-Hasidic rabbinate of his time. His everyday life was simple, and he was the first rebbe who did not dress in white (as was common for kabbalists and early Hasidic leaders).

==Political parties associated with Belz==
*[[United Torah Judaism]] | [[Agudat Yisrael]]

==Belz today==

Since 1966, Rabbi [[Yissachar Dov Rokeach]] has presided over both the expansion of Belz educational institutions and the growth of Hasidic populations in Israel, the United States, and Europe. Like other Hasidic groups, the Belz community has established a variety of self-help organizations, including one of the largest patient-advocacy organizations of its kind, a free medical counseling center, and an affordable medical treatment clinic in the New York area.<ref>[https://www.congress.gov/crec/1995/06/20/CREC-1995-06-20-pt1-PgE1300-3.pdf Tribute to Rabbi Yisocher Dov Rokeach, the Belzer Rebbe, Upon His Visit to New York – Hon. Jerrold Nadler] |20 June 1995, Congressional Record, 104th Congress (1995–1996)</ref>

Under the Rebbe's leadership, the Belz Hasidut has grown from a few hundred families at the time of his accession to leadership in 1966, to over 11,000 families, as of 2022.<ref name="born">Landesman, Yerucham. "Born to Lead: How did the Belzer Rebbe breathe new life into a shattered Chassidus?" ''[[Mishpacha]]'', 10 October 2011, pp. 30–51.</ref> Belz is Israel's second largest Hasidic group.

===Israel===

===United Kingdom===
====London====
In [[London]], the Belz community is now centred in [[Stamford Hill]].<ref name=jc-20150528>{{cite news |url=http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/136878/stamford-hill-sect-bans-women-drivers |title=Stamford Hill sect bans women drivers |author=Simon Rocker |newspaper=Jewish Chronicle |date=28 May 2015 |access-date=29 May 2015}}</ref> In the 1930s, an early Belz synagogue was on [[Commercial Road]], [[Limehouse]], in the [[East End of London|East End]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jewisheastend.com/belz.html |title=Memories of the Belzer synagogue |publisher=Jewish East End |access-date=31 May 2015}}</ref>

====Salford====
There is a Belz community centred around Broughton Park in Salford, part of Greater Manchester.
Several UK charities are associated with the Belz movement, including i Salford: [[The Helping Foundation]] | [[The Sympathetic Trust]] | [[Newmarston Ltd]] | [[A W Charitable Trust]] | [[RNH Synagogue & College Ltd]] | [[The Sanz Foundation]] | [[The Reisner Charitable Foundation Ltd]] | [[Broom Foundation]] | [[Newmarston Ltd]] | [[M and M Foundation]] | [[British Friends of Ezrat Yisrael Kiryat Sefer]]

Belz associated schools in the UK include: [[Talmud Torah Tashbar]] | [[Yeshivah Ohr Torah School]] | [[TTMH Belz Day School]] <ref>https://files.ofsted.gov.uk/v1/file/908393</ref> | [[Bnos Yisroel School Manchester]]

==Belz yeshivas==
Belz maintains 12 [[yeshiva]]s in Israel: 7 [[yeshiva gedola]]s (including two in [[Ashdod]], and one each in [[Jerusalem]], [[Bnei Brak]], [[Betar]], [[Bet shemesh]], and [[Haifa]]); 5 [[Mesivta|yeshiva ketanas]] (in [[Kiryat Yearim|Telzstone]], Bnei Brak, Ashdod, [[Beit Hilkia]], and [[Komemiyut]]); and 7 other yeshiva ketanas around the world — in [[Antwerp]], [[London]], [[Montreal]], [[Monsey, New York|Monsey]], and three in [[Borough Park, Brooklyn]], and one in Lakewood, New Jersey.

The Belz network of [[Bais Yaakov#Hasidic schools|girls' schools]] are under the names ''Bnos Belz'' and ''Beis [[Malka Rokeach|Malka]]''.

The rapper [[Shyne]], who converted to Judaism, studied with Hasidim from the Belz group in Jerusalem.<ref>[https://crownheights.info/jewish-news/36566/shyne-the-bad-boy-rap-star-whos-now-a-chassid/ Shyne: The Bad-Boy Rap Star Who's Now a Chassid] CrownHeights.info - Chabad News, Crown Heights News, Lubavitch News</ref>

==Notable Belz Hasidim==

*[[Yaakov Yechezkiya Greenwald]] (1882–1941), rabbi
*[[Shulem Lemmer]] (born 1989), singer
*[[Yaakov Yitzhak Neumann]] (1920–2007), rabbi
*[[Aharon Mordechai Rokeach]] (born 1975), rabbi
*[[Mordechai Rokeach]] (1902–1949), rabbi
==Resources==
*https://www.timesofisrael.com/belz-hasidic-sect-to-begin-teaching-core-curriculum-more-said-to-follow/
*https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/57295/
*https://www.nytimes.com/1981/03/03/nyregion/guard-set-for-belz-rabbi-as-hasidic-tension-grows.html
*https://archive.jpr.org.uk/download?id=2448
*https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/mothers-face-ban-from-driving-their-children-to-orthodox-jewish-schools-in-stamford-hill-10280936.html
*https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3100674/Orthodox-Jewish-sect-compared-Saudi-Arabia-banning-women-London-driving-barring-pupils-school-dropped-mothers.html

==Notes==
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 Several UK charities are associated with the Belz movement, including i Salford: [[The Helping Foundation]] | [[The Sympathetic Trust]] | [[Newmarston Ltd]] | [[A W Charitable Trust]] | [[RNH Synagogue & College Ltd]] | [[The Sanz Foundation]] | [[The Reisner Charitable Foundation Ltd]] | [[Broom Foundation]] | [[Newmarston Ltd]] | [[M and M Foundation]] | [[British Friends of Ezrat Yisrael Kiryat Sefer]]
-Belz associated schools in the UK include: [[Talmud Torah Tashbar]] | [[Yeshivah Ohr Torah School]] | [[TTMH Belz Day School]] <ref>https://files.ofsted.gov.uk/v1/file/908393</ref> | [[Bnos Yisroel School Manchester]] | [[Talmud Torah Chinuch Norim School]]
+Belz associated schools in the UK include: [[Talmud Torah Tashbar]] | [[Yeshivah Ohr Torah School]] | [[TTMH Belz Day School]] <ref>https://files.ofsted.gov.uk/v1/file/908393</ref> | [[Bnos Yisroel School Manchester]] | [[Talmud Torah Chinuch Norim School]] | [[Beis Malka Girls School (Hackney)]]
 ==Belz yeshivas==

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 A [[Hasidic dynasties|Hasidic sect]] originally located in the town of Belz in eastern Galicia near Lvov in what is now Ukraine. 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 maintained a close relationship with the Galician non-Hasidic rabbinate of his time. His everyday life was simple, and he was the first rebbe who did not dress in white (as was common for kabbalists and early Hasidic leaders).
 ==Political parties associated with Belz==
 *[[United Torah Judaism]] | [[Agudat Yisrael]]

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 Under the Rebbe's leadership, the Belz Hasidut has grown from a few hundred families at the time of his accession to leadership in 1966, to over 11,000 families, as of 2022.<ref name="born">Landesman, Yerucham. "Born to Lead: How did the Belzer Rebbe breathe new life into a shattered Chassidus?" ''[[Mishpacha]]'', 10 October 2011, pp. 30–51.</ref> Belz is Israel's second largest Hasidic group.
+==Communities==
 ===United Kingdom===
 In London, the Belz community is now centred in Stamford Hill.<ref name=jc-20150528>[http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/136878/stamford-hill-sect-bans-women-drivers Stamford Hill sect bans women drivers] Simon Rocker ''Jewish Chronicle'' 8 May 2015.</ref> In the 1930s, an early Belz synagogue was on Commercial Road, Limehouse, in the East End of London.<ref>[http://www.jewisheastend.com/belz.html Memories of the Belzer synagogue] Jewish East End.</ref>
-====Salford====
+The British [[Belz Hasidic dynasty]] community is centred in the Stamford Hill area of London, with additional communities in Manchester and Westcliff-on-Sea.<ref name="Guardian">Haroon Siddique, [https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jun/05/ultra-orthodox-jewish-sect-belz-women-driver-ban-illegal-equality-commission Ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect's female driver ban 'unlawful and discriminatory'] ''The Guardian'', 5 June 2015.</ref>
 There is a Belz community centred around Broughton Park in Salford, part of Greater Manchester.
 Several UK charities are associated with the Belz movement, including i Salford: [[The Helping Foundation]] | [[The Sympathetic Trust]] | [[Newmarston Ltd]] | [[A W Charitable Trust]] | [[RNH Synagogue & College Ltd]] | [[The Sanz Foundation]] | [[The Reisner Charitable Foundation Ltd]] | [[Broom Foundation]] | [[Newmarston Ltd]] | [[M and M Foundation]] | [[British Friends of Ezrat Yisrael Kiryat Sefer]]
 Belz associated schools in the UK include: [[Talmud Torah Tashbar]] | [[Yeshivah Ohr Torah School]] | [[TTMH Belz Day School]] <ref>https://files.ofsted.gov.uk/v1/file/908393</ref> | [[Bnos Yisroel School Manchester]] | [[Talmud Torah Chinuch Norim School]] | [[Beis Malka Girls School (Hackney)]]
 ==Belz yeshivas==
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 *[[Mordechai Rokeach]] (1902–1949), rabbi
 ==See also==
 *[[Belz non profits in the US]]
+* [[Agudat Yisrael]]
 ==Resources==
 *https://www.timesofisrael.com/belz-hasidic-sect-to-begin-teaching-core-curriculum-more-said-to-follow/
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 *https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/mothers-face-ban-from-driving-their-children-to-orthodox-jewish-schools-in-stamford-hill-10280936.html
 *https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3100674/Orthodox-Jewish-sect-compared-Saudi-Arabia-banning-women-London-driving-barring-pupils-school-dropped-mothers.html
 ==Notes==
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