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Community-wide cover-up by Bratslavers in Yavne'el preventing authorities from gauging full scale of 'dysfunctional' ...

An investigation is underway after authorities said a Borough Park man was murdered while visiting Colombia. A funeral was ...

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 ...

City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams has secured more than two dozen coveted Hasidic endorsements, making her the dark horse to watch in what has been a tumultuous mayoral race. Late on Monday, Speaker ...

Like many local front-line workers right now, EMT Goldy Landau is working overtime — as many as 80 hours per week. Unlike most, however, the 28-year-old grew up well outside the mainstream: in Kiryas ...

A visitor at Shtetl Gallery, a new Hasidic art gallery in Williamsburg, New York (all images by the author for Hyperallergic) A new art gallery opened in New York City last week in an uncommon ...

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 ...

Parents who try to withdraw their children from yeshivas over a lack of secular education often cannot do so, hampered by social pressure and a rabbinical court system. Students at Yeshiva Mesivta ...