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Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzales appears poised to try to help free a convicted pedophile from the Hasidic community, critics say  — ...

American YouTuber Tyler Oliveira has gone viral after a video that focuses on Kiryas Joel’s insular Hasidic community, its ...

NEW YORK — New York State Attorney General Letitia James came out in support of federal intervention in a dispute over a Jewish housing development in the Catskills region, in a local conflict that ...

(New York Jewish Week) — A federal judge in Brooklyn has denied a bid by New York City and the estate of former Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes to throw out a civil-rights lawsuit brought by ...

Chavie Weisberger grew up in an ultra-Orthodox Hasidic community in Monsey, New York, where she raised her three children after her 2008 divorce. But as she began questioning her faith and her ...

I am horrified and heartbroken. The New York State Legislature is passing a bill to dilute and delay the implementation of education standards at yeshivas and other nonpublic schools across the state.

A new Netflix show inspired by the true story of a woman who left the Hasidic Jewish community in Williamsburg is stirring up a lot of questions and conversations. Abby Stein, 28, says she was raised ...

(JTA) — When Abe Kugielsky first began photographing the Hasidic Jewish community in Borough Park, Brooklyn, in 2010, he was an outsider with a camera, met with resistance from a community ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new campaign is targeting Hasidic and Orthodox Jewish voters in Monsey, N.Y., with ads calling on voters to contact Rep. Mike ...

NEW YORK — Thirteen members of the Hasidic Jewish community pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges stemming from their alleged role in a dispute over an illegal tunnel built beneath a historic ...

The decision is the first time that the State Department of Education has withheld money from private Hasidic schools for not teaching sufficient math and English skills. By Eliza Shapiro and Brian M.