Abby Stein's memoir about growing up Hasidic and transgender, 'Becoming Eve,' is being adapted into a play with the New York ...
Congregation Beth Jacob Ohev Sholom is a rare holdout of both pre-Hasidic and pre-gentrification Williamsburg.
A joint investigation published Tuesday by WNYC and the New York Daily News found that in several heavily Hasidic sections of Brooklyn’s Williamsburg ... the Hasidic community’s large ...
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 ...
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 ...
Weddings have been happening in Brooklyn for months ... to be honest,” said Meyer Labin, a Hasidic writer who grew up in the Williamsburg Satmar community. Some critics say the lack of ...
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.
Rosenthal A decade after allegations first surfaced that schools operated by New York’s Hasidic Jewish community were ... boys Hasidic schools in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and will ensure that ...
The New York State Education Department is cutting off public funding to two Brooklyn yeshivas ... yeshivas are in Williamsburg, the center of the city’s Satmar Hasidic community.