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

That’s why the state must intervene, writes an advocate to improve Hasidic education. NEW YORK (JTA) — On our first date nearly nine years ago, my (now) husband resolved to improve Hasidic ...

Stein, an ordained rabbi educated in the Viznitz yeshiva, a prestigious Hasidic rabbinical school in New York state, also engaged Weinstein and Rafaeli in lessons about traditional Jewish texts ...

The rioting continued until New York Mayor David Dinkins sent ... of the New Yorker magazine, picturing a Hasidic man and an African American woman in an embrace. Many in the Hasidic community ...

On Thursday, Aug. 10, Raskin and the RAZA ensemble will have their premiere in New York City at the ... collaboration among Raskin, women artists from non-Orthodox Jewish backgrounds and the ...

New York has a couple of laws that aim to prevent ... it nonetheless colored her perception of how Orthodox Jewish women are treated by the Jewish courts, the Batei Din, during divorce proceedings.

For example, the project advisors endorsed the producers' plan to focus mainly on Hasidism in Brooklyn, New York City ... in the Hasidic ideology and lifestyle. And, because women are less ...