When Americans want to learn Yiddish, they usually sign up for classes at YIVO, the Yiddish Book Center or the Workers Circle ...

Anthropologist Samuel Shuman and Yiddish linguist Chaya Nove recently conducted a unique sort of joint fieldwork: they ...

Rabbi Moshe Indig said Mamdani convinced him through quiet engagement, but mainstream Jewish groups remain skeptical of the new mayor.

(JTA) — Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski, the scion of multiple Hasidic dynasties, author of more than 60 books, and a physician who became a leading authority on drug treatment and addiction, has died.

The video, in which Binsky is accompanied by ex-Hasidic community member and transgender activist Abby Stein, has been viewed nearly 800,000 times in four days. (New York Jewish Week) — For eight ...

Mitchell ‘Moyshe’ Silk, the first Hasidic Jew confirmed to a post by the Senate, speaks to JI about his path from Borough ...

Over the past several months, The New York Times has published investigative stories focusing on Hasidic schools in New York which have been derided by critics including the Anti-Defamation League, ...

UMAN, Ukraine — For all but a week a year, the city of Uman is like any small city in Ukraine. The economy usually revolves around a bus factory and some grain processing facilities. But every fall, ...

Some of Brooklyn’s ultra-Orthodox leaders are demanding an end to ongoing prayer services, funeral processions, and other illicit gatherings in parts of the community, as COVID-19 continues to rip ...

The NYPD on Sunday broke up a crowd of hundreds of Hasidic Jews who gathered in a street in Brooklyn for the funeral of a rabbi who died from the coronavirus. It's one of several times over the past ...

A Hasidic man was refused service at a Toyota dealership in New York Monday after being accused of “spreading the virus.” In several videos and voice notes shared on WhatsApp, the man described making ...

A formerly Hasidic mom lost custody of her kids after coming out as gay — and was barred from even telling her youngest children about her sexuality, according to a first-of-its-kind Brooklyn court ...