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Abby Stein shares her journey from an ultra Orthodox upbringing to embracing her identity as a transgender woman and finding ...
Why the frenzy of accusations and discrimination when Muslims attempted to build a planned community in Texas?
Candidates in New York City’s mayoral race are attempting to win over Jewish voters — but some local community leaders ...
Cuomo — who leads the Democratic primary and plans to run on an independent general election ballot line — has called ...
Six people were arrested after anti-Israel protesters clashed with Hasidic Jewish locals outside a prominent Brooklyn synagogue where Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir was making a… ...
A trio of troublemakers sped through Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in a white car shooting pellet guns and gel guns at people dressed in traditional Hasidic Jewish garb, hitting at least seven persons ...
My Hasidic education was attuned to meaning, not money. I learned how to patiently engage with and closely read ancient texts, dissect an argument from every angle, and pray meditatively for hours ...
Congregation Beth Jacob Ohev Sholom, established in the 1860s as Beth Jacob, is a relic of Williamsburg before Hasidic Jews descended on the neighborhood after the Holocaust.
Attention, Satmar Shoppers: At the new W Mall, built explicitly for one of Williamsburg’s Hasidic communities, there’s a milchig food court and a refuge for weary mothers.
I n the morning after Yom Kippur, curious shoppers trickled into a gleaming new shopping center abutting the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway on the edge of Brooklyn’s Williamsburg and Clinton Hill ...
Trump is popular among Williamsburg’s Hasidic Jews. In 2020, when Brooklyn overall voted in large numbers for Joe Biden, the Satmar area of Williamsburg was deep red, with some precincts casting ...