Jacob Kornbluh, a former lox-slinger with no degrees, became an unlikely fixture in New York politics. Now he is chasing the ...

BROWNSVILLE & CROWN HEIGHTS —AS CROWN HEIGHTS home prices surge past $1.2 million, Hasidic families from the Chabad-Lubavitch community are relocating to Brownsville, where homes average $610,000.

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Carlota America Ruiz stood outside Congregation Beth Jacob Ohev Sholom with a locksmith and a court order. Ruiz had prayed at the Williamsburg synagogue since the 1980s. It’s where she completed her ...

Changing a law that chiefly affects all-boys Hasidic Jewish schools, known as yeshivas, has been a top priority among leaders of New York’s Hasidic communities, which tend to vote as a bloc. By ...

For the past two years, the residents of a small town 60 miles north of New York City have openly fretted about a proposed housing development that they fear will be filled with Hasidic Jews.

The Princeton Institute for Hasidic Thought invites you to join us on Sunday, November 9 at Princeton University for a symposium exploring the role of Hasidic thought, an eighteenth-century tradition ...

Walk down the right street, take the right staircase, and behind an unmarked door you might come across a shtiebel — an informal Jewish prayer room that serves as a gathering place for a small, ...