Ultra-Orthodox women in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, want to experience the joys of summer like everyone else. But that may not be possible this year, due to a lack of female lifeguards at the local ...

Newly inducted New York Supreme Court Justice Rachel Freier is breaking barriers, becoming the first Hasidic female judge to serve on the state’s highest court. Many came together in Downtown Brooklyn ...

(JTA) — As a child growing up in the Chabad hasidic community of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Chana Raskin was immersed in a male soundscape. Her father brought her with him to synagogue on Shabbat and ...

BOROUGH PARK, Brooklyn (WABC) -- An all-women group of EMT's in Brooklyn are breaking a glass ceiling - but not the one you think. Dressed in purple and ready to save lives are the Hasidic Jewish ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hasidic men and women walk through a Jewish Orthodox neighborhood in Brooklyn on April 24, 2017 in New York City. (Spencer ...

LOWER EAST SIDE (WABC) -- Its two worlds some assume could never collide; Hasidic women and rock and roll music. Fans of Bulletproof Stockings jammed at Arlene's Grocery on the Lower East Side ...

A concert at JCC Manhattan will celebrate “Kapelya,” the first recording of Hasidic nigunim performed exclusively by women. (JTA) — As a child growing up in the Chabad Hasidic community of Crown ...

“Do you remember him?” Nechie Fischman’s friend asked her in November. It had been nearly a decade since the 30-year-old former Orthodox Jewish woman last saw the Brooklyn doctor. Still, she ...