This is the last of a three-part series on insular enclaves of ultra-Orthodox Jews, the struggles they face, and the controversies that follow them. Chaim Fishman had all the requisite markers of a ...

Hasidic daily publishes new ruling from Amshinover Rebbe allowing visits to Temple Mount under certain conditions.

Some of Brooklyn’s ultra-Orthodox leaders are demanding an end to ongoing prayer services, funeral processions, and other illicit gatherings in parts of the community, as COVID-19 continues to rip ...

For almost 130 years, New York State has required private and non-public schools to offer a curriculum “substantially equivalent” to those offered in local public schools. That requirement has been ...

Zohran Mamdani is making a direct appeal to Brooklyn’s Hasidic community, targeting an influential constituency that often votes based on rabbinical guidance. In an open letter written in Hasidic ...

The New York State Board of Regents is passing new rules meant to enforce the state’s “substantial equivalency” law, so that yeshivas must offer more robust coursework in subjects like math, English ...

A member of the Satmar hasidic community in New York, who converted to Judaism together with his wife, recently became irreligious - and the community is now saying that he was an imposter from the ...

(RNS) — 'We’re an easy target. The last remaining group that it’s acceptable to target and vilify are Orthodox Jews,' said Barry Spitzer, who represents the Brooklyn neighborhood Borough Park and is ...

Yehudit Chervony grew up going to Catholic church, but a college LSD trip led her to a strict form of Judaism.Michael Sofronski Growing up in a Catholic family in East New York in the ’90s, Yehudit ...

Friday night, for the second week in a row, there was an attack on an Orthodox Jew in Crown Heights. He was accused of being a “fake Jew” who was behind the assailant’s eviction. It’s not surprising.

NEW YORK (RNS) — Three weeks ago, the board of regents of the New York State Education Department released new regulations for nonpublic schools to make sure the education they offer, per state law, ...

Like many local front-line workers right now, EMT Goldy Landau is working overtime — as many as 80 hours per week. Unlike most, however, the 28-year-old grew up well outside the mainstream: in Kiryas ...