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A new measure under consideration by New York lawmakers could substantially limit oversight of religious schools, marking a possible major victory for the state’s Hasidic yeshivas, the NY Times ...
For three hours, I trekked through the streets of Hasidic Williamsburg along with two Swiss sisters, a married lesbian couple from Argentina, a Jewish Lebanese woman now living in New York ...
The main housecleaning parada is in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where women regularly find jobs in the homes of Hasidic Jews. In the leafy suburbs, there are more landscapers. In Flushing, close to a ...
Mamdani, a Democratic Socialist, is making good on pledge to build inroads among Jews, spurring outrage from some Orthodox ...
Changing a law that chiefly affects all-boys Hasidic Jewish schools, known as yeshivas, has been a top priority among leaders ...
A controversial new bike lane that runs through a portion of north Brooklyn's Hasidic Jewish community is now at the center of a legal dispute between City Councilmember Lincoln Restler and ...
I grew up in the Hasidic community, a world where the needs of the community always came before the needs of the individual. A child’s well-being could be overlooked if it brought shame to the ...
The war has exacerbated a burgeoning conflict between the country that Israel is becoming and the values of the majority of American Jews. To put it in familiar terms, Israel has grown politically ...