There’s been a full-court press of late against Hasidic education in New York by a small number of yeshiva graduates who are agitating for authorities to force additional secular studies curricula on ...

While attending a major Las Vegas tech conference for work a couple of years ago, I found myself following a Hasidic couple around the convention center. Their presence at the tradeshow was not ...

Joseph Berger has been a New York Times reporter, columnist, and editor for thirty years. He is the author of numerous books including Displaced Persons: Growing Up American After the Holocaust, which ...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced on Jan. 3, 2019 that New York’s L subway line will not be shut down for 18 months after all. This will come as welcome news to the Satmar Hasidim who live in the ...

Orthodox Jewish leaders spoke to Fox News condemning Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and chief medical adviser to President Biden, for offhand ...

Concerned with keeping themselves spiritually clean, the Hasidim are preoccupied with ideas of biblical concepts of purity and contamination. In this ordering of values, separation from outsiders is ...

When New York natives Duvid and Naomi Singer went to Poland about a decade ago and spent some time visiting the gravesite of a revered Hasidic rebbe, they spotted something unusual beyond the 30 or so ...

The FBI wants to hear from Hasidim, or “ultra-Orthodox” Jews. The Hate Crimes Unit said as much when it issued announcements – in both Yiddish and Hebrew – asking Jews to report antisemitic incidents ...

What depressing commentaries on our times are displayed across Saturday’s Editorial and Opinion pages. Concerning Outremont, your editorial advocates tolerance and understanding. I guess it would be ...

Written by Yehuda HaChasid, a legendary medieval Jewish sage, Sefer Hasidim is one of the most influential Jewish books of the last 1,000 years. In Sefer Hasidim and the Ashkenazic Book in Medieval ...

This idea of exodus and redemption is mirrored in Paradise Cove: They Escaped the Cuckoo’s Nest, where Rabbi Pinny Dunner tells the remarkable story of a man whose own exodus marked a journey away ...

A few weeks ago, Reuven went to a party. It was indoors. No one wore masks. No one who attended was in any rush to get a vaccine. Reuven and his wife were uncomfortable. But if they hadn’t gone, his ...