While most hip-hoppers’ touring contracts include the artists’ preferred brand of high-end liquor, rapper Moshe Reuven’s list calls for rabbi-sanctioned dairy products. “And kosher nutritious meals,” ...
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 ...
The Hasidic Agudat Yisrael faction’s rabbinic leadership ends a meeting on the bill to regulate ultra-Orthodox military conscription and exemptions without using a statement against the legislation, ...
(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.
(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 ...
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, ...
The NYPD on Sunday broke up a crowd of hundreds of Hasidic Jews who gathered in a street in Brooklyn for the funeral of a rabbi who died from the coronavirus. It's one of several times over the past ...
Surprise move not to issue statement against the legislation expected to allow it to advance while Agudat Yisrael maintains ...
A group of nine leading Hasidic sects in Brookyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood, including the two large Satmar factions, have decided to back Andrew Yang as their first choice for mayor, sources who ...
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 ...
The founders of Beach Gal say their line of work doesn't break Jewish laws. Hasidic Jews and bikinis don’t normally end up in the same sentence together. The modesty rules that govern the Hasidic ...
WILLIAMSBURG, Brooklyn (WABC) -- A 16-year-old has been charged for being part of a group that attacked a Hasidic man on the streets of Brooklyn. It happened Friday evening on Gerry Street in ...