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 ...

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 ...

For almost 130 years, New York State has required private and non-public schools to offer a curriculum “substantially equivalent” to those offered in local public schools. That requirement has been ...

The New York State Board of Regents is passing new rules meant to enforce the state’s “substantial equivalency” law, so that yeshivas must offer more robust coursework in subjects like math, English ...

Yehudit Chervony grew up going to Catholic church, but a college LSD trip led her to a strict form of Judaism.Michael Sofronski Growing up in a Catholic family in East New York in the ’90s, Yehudit ...

(JTA) — A Facebook campaign ad from an upstate New York county’s Republican Party has been slammed as anti-Semitic and “deeply disturbing.” Titled “A storm is brewing in Rockland,” the video takes aim ...

The notice instructed passengers to board through the rear door and sit at the back of the bus “in order to allow the ...

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 (RNS) — Three weeks ago, the board of regents of the New York State Education Department released new regulations for nonpublic schools to make sure the education they offer, per state law, ...

(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 ...

Midway through the first episode of “Unorthodox,” a new, four-part Netflix miniseries about a nineteen-year-old woman’s escape from her Hasidic community in Brooklyn, we see the protagonist’s real ...

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 ...