Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced on Jan. 3, 2019 that New York’s L subway line will not be shut down for 18 months after all. This will come as welcome news to the Satmar Hasidim who live in the ...

In the past few years I’ve been spending much of my time outside of New York, but now I’m here and I find that coming back is a bit challenging. When I’m in town I’m oblivious to the changes happening ...

Kiryas Joel has few precedents in Diaspora history but is at home on the political and religious landscape of the United States, write David N. Myers and Nomi M. Stolzenberg. (JTA) — This past ...

Sen. Charles Schumer, addressing a crowd of thousands of Satmar Hasidim gathered in Brooklyn Tuesday night, praised the American values and “Torah values” he said they embodied, and invoked the Hebrew ...

The Satmar Hasidim of South Williamsburg have their own schools, their own ambulance service, their own police and their own Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons. The Satmar Hasidim of South Williamsburg ...

As the state agency that owns the National Guard armory in Williamsburg readies the 3.2-acre site for sale, a sect of the Hasidic community that lives in the neighborhood has emerged as the most ...

The picture of the Hasidim as members of a homogeneous closed community, people of one mind who turn their backs on the modern world, is inaccurate. There are deep differences between different groups ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WILLIAMSBURG, Brooklyn — A huge group of ...

Joseph Berger has been a New York Times reporter, columnist, and editor for thirty years. He is the author of numerous books including Displaced Persons: Growing Up American After the Holocaust, which ...

(JTA) — One of the world’s most influential haredi Orthodox rabbis has tested positive for the coronavirus, according to multiple news reports. It is unclear from the reports whether Rabbi Aaron ...