- Satmar: Hungarian Hasidic sect with perhaps 130,000 members. Known for being anti-Zionist because they believe that the state of Israel should only be established when the messiah comes.
- Ger: Once the largest Hasidic sect in Poland, this sect is still one of the largest in the world and based out of Jerusalem.
- Chabad-Lubavitch: Known for their outreach programs that try to bring non-observant Jews into a more observant lifestyle one mitzvah at a time.
- Viznitz: A Ukrainian Hasidic sect with members centered in Bnei Brak and Haifa in Israel, and Monsey, NY.
- Bobov: A Galician Hasidic sect with members now located around the world.
- Belz: This Hasidic sect comes from the Ukraine.
- Breslov: Members of this sect participate in self-seclusion as one of their ways of praying to G-d.
- Karlin: Known to cry out in loud voices to G-d.
- Sanz-Klausenburg: Hasidic sect that originated in Transylvania, Romania.
- Skver: Stresses abstention from excessive earthly pleasures.
* The actual numbers of each Hasidic sect are largely unknown, as there is no official census. These ten sects have significant numbers, though the rank order may be incorrect.
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