Most of the Jews of Solotvino were traditionalists. Many were Chasidim, followers of Rabbi Yekutiel Yehuda Teitelbaum of Sighet, and the wealthier ones belonged to the Chasidim of Viszhnits. Up to the end of World War I the community was assisted with religious services by the district town of Sighet. After the war Sighet was annexed by Romania, and its rabbi, the author of ”Etz Chaim”, passed the border every Tuesday in order to hand down halacha decrees in Solotvino. The first and only rabbi of Solotvino, Rabbi Chaim Isaak Halberstam, the son-in-law of the rabbi of Sighet, was appointed in 1925. He united the Sighet and the Vishnitz Chasidim opponents, and founded a Yeshiva, which attracted students from far away. Most Jewish children were educated in cheders and the wealthy families invited private tutors, others went to public school and most of them continued their studies in Yeshivot.