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Changing a law that chiefly affects all-boys Hasidic Jewish schools, known as yeshivas, has been a top priority among leaders of New York’s Hasidic communities, which tend to vote as a bloc.
Letitia James said the allegations that a Sullivan County town changed zoning regulations to block Jewish developers are "deeply troubling" Attorney General Letitia James commended the Justice ...
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 ...
That night, he was scheduled to speak at 770 Eastern Parkway, the headquarters of the Chabad Lubavich Hasidic Jewish movement, in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. In November 2024, the International ...
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 ...
This Oscar nominated documentary serves not only as a remembrance but a lesson and a warning for the future. It follows | ...
Dani Rosenberg’s 'Of Dogs and Men' and Brandon Kramer's 'Holding Liat' took top honors at the Jewish Film Festival Berlin ...
Members of the ultra-Orthodox and Hasidic Jewish communities protested the new rules and are pushing for them to be dropped. Now, Education Commissioner Betty Rosa said, the regulations are being ...
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 ...
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 ...