Zohran Mamdani is making a direct appeal to Brooklyn’s Hasidic community, targeting an influential constituency that often votes based on rabbinical guidance. In an open letter written in Hasidic ...

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A critical lack of secular education in Orthodox yeshivas affects tens of thousands of Jewish children, writes the executive director of YAFFED. In the most intensely covered mayoral election in ...

At a blood plasma center in Pennsylvania, Hasidim from Brooklyn and upstate came by the carful. By the time night had fallen, more than 60 had arrived to donate blood plasma, rich in the antibodies ...

With One of Us (screening November 16 as part of the DOC NYC festival), directors Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady mesh themes they’ve explored in other documentaries. In their Oscar-nominated 2006 film ...

For the first time in the history of the Satmar movement, a group from the Hasidic sect is leaving the boundaries of Bnei ...

When Abe Kugielsky first began photographing the Hasidic Jewish community in Borough Park, Brooklyn, in 2010, he was an outsider with a camera, met with resistance from a community unaccustomed to ...