Today there are twelve principal Hasidic courts, though many of the smaller ones still exist. Williamsburg, Brooklyn, was a community of Orthodox, but increasingly westernized, Jews from Germany ...

“That’s the feeling, that they’ve had it, everybody they know has had it,” said a Williamsburg health ... appears to be guiding life in Brooklyn’s Hasidic communities, where nearly ...

That has been her go-to since she was a kid growing up Hasidic in Williamsburg ... recounts her upbringing in this insular, religious community and culminates with her coming out as a transgender ...

(JTA) — A Brooklyn rabbi is under investigation ... who runs Yeshiva Tiferes Hatorah in the Williamsburg neighborhood as well as a community in upstate Liberty, where many of the young couples ...

Beth Jacob Ohev Sholom is the oldest Orthodox synagogue in Brooklyn and the ... Hasidic and pre-gentrification Williamsburg. Ruiz said members of the Hasidic community have expressed interest ...

An outsider visiting a Hasidic neighborhood in Brooklyn is likely to be struck immediately by just how Hasidic it looks. The Hasidic parts of Crown Heights, Williamsburg, and Boro Park are lively ...

Rabbi Moshe Landa of Williamsburg instructed his congregation to pray for President Donald Trump during Sabbath services, deviating from traditional political neutrality in the Hasidic community.

Jake Offenhartz, a New York reporter with experience covering Brooklyn’s Hasidic community, quickly pulled together a story on what little police and the synagogue’s leaders would say, but big ...