Sam Kellner faced charges, which were later dropped, after breaking the silence about abuse in his Brooklyn community.
IDF says it detained several suspects who fled on foot after abandoning car in West Bank city; in separate incident, mentally ...
A Hasidic man was refused service at a Toyota dealership in New York Monday after being accused of “spreading the virus.” In several videos and voice notes shared on WhatsApp, the man described making ...
Footage shows assailant grabbing Jewish man's neck, uttering threats; US assistant attorney general for civil rights vows ...
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 ...
Over the past several months, The New York Times has published investigative stories focusing on Hasidic schools in New York which have been derided by critics including the Anti-Defamation League, ...
When Americans want to learn Yiddish, they usually sign up for classes at YIVO, the Yiddish Book Center or the Workers Circle ...
UMAN, Ukraine — For all but a week a year, the city of Uman is like any small city in Ukraine. The economy usually revolves around a bus factory and some grain processing facilities. But every fall, ...
(JTA) — Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski, the scion of multiple Hasidic dynasties, author of more than 60 books, and a physician who became a leading authority on drug treatment and addiction, has died.
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 State health officials approved a license for an all-female Hasidic ambulance company to provide emergency medical service in orthodox Jewish section of Brooklyn. The application by members ...
Between the hallways of the West Wing, a place where almost no one is allowed to enter, Hasidic singer Shulem Lemmer sat and ...