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 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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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.

Three more in Brooklyn — Borough Park ... Mask wearing is not consistent. In Williamsburg, home to the Satmar Hasidic community, mask wearing on the street is rare. “ ...

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 ...