Hayim Nissim Cohen created a TikTok account where he falsely portrayed himself as a Hasidic Jew from New York.

Stein said she rarely returns to Hasidic Williamsburg solo since she came out as transgender, but she often comes back with groups, including a recent tour with the play’s all-Jewish cast.

girls are restricted from studying most Jewish religious texts.) So when New York cut off funding for, and effectively closed, two Hasidic all-boys schools in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg ...

Find out what happened to Brooklyn real estate developer Menachem Stark, who vanished after leaving his Williamsburg office ...

Today there are twelve principal Hasidic courts, though many of the smaller ones still exist. Williamsburg, Brooklyn, was a community of Orthodox, but increasingly westernized, Jews from Germany ...

The Hasidic parts of Crown Heights, Williamsburg, and Boro Park are lively ... The Hasidim are first of all Orthodox Jews. They believe that the Torah, the five books of Moses, is the literal ...

After disavowing her strict religious upbringing, Abby Stein came out as transgender. She is now the subject of a new play by ...

Earlier in the pandemic, a large funeral for a Hasidic rabbi in Williamsburg drew thousands to the street, provoking a tweet from New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio that called out “the Jewish ...

The spot is easily recognizable by its bright yellow saloon doors on South 6th Street, perched between Williamsburg’s hipster lofts and Hasidic Jewish enclave. After he had a new bicycle stolen ...