Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. LINDEN – The City Council is scheduled to introduce two revised housing and land ordinances following pushback from the local ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — New York State Attorney General Letitia James came out in support of federal intervention in a dispute over a Jewish housing development in the Catskills region, in a local conflict that ...

I am horrified and heartbroken. The New York State Legislature is passing a bill to dilute and delay the implementation of education standards at yeshivas and other nonpublic schools across the state.

A legal battle over a three-block-long bike lane in a predominantly Orthodox Jewish Brooklyn neighborhood has become a central issue in Mayor Eric Adams’ re-election campaign. The mayor in June ...

(New York Jewish Week) — A federal judge in Brooklyn has denied a bid by New York City and the estate of former Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes to throw out a civil-rights lawsuit brought by ...

The decision is the first time that the State Department of Education has withheld money from private Hasidic schools for not teaching sufficient math and English skills. By Eliza Shapiro and Brian M.

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 ...

A new Netflix show inspired by the true story of a woman who left the Hasidic Jewish community in Williamsburg is stirring up a lot of questions and conversations. Abby Stein, 28, says she was raised ...

“When I left my husband so my kids and I could survive, the community left me.” Thus spoke a heartbroken Hasidic woman, who was rejected by her community when she fled her 16-year marriage to an ...

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