Weeks after one prominent Satmar wedding was publicly called off amid a backlash over convening guests during the pandemic, members of the Hasidic Orthodox sect held another wedding in Brooklyn that ...

Following the endorsements, both Cuomo and Mamdani responded, thanking the community's leaders and promising to make New York better for all. Community leaders Cheskel Berkowitz, Avrum Brach, and ...

Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo secured the backing from leaders of a typically bloc-voting Orthodox Jewish group on Sunday — after a rabbi in the Brooklyn sect reportedly issued an “unauthorized” mayoral ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...

After The New York Times published an investigative piece on the poor academic performance of Orthodox Jewish yeshiva students, much of the Jewish press responded with nuanced outrage. One finely ...

Rabbi Moses Teitelbaum, who died yesterday at 91, was the worldwide spiritual leader of the Satmar Chasidim, the fervently Orthodox Jewish sect with large congregations in Williamsburg and Kiryas Joel ...

“My phone hasn’t stopped ringing. It’s all your fault! The Voice started this.” That’s Isaac Abraham, the first Hasidic candidate for city council, juggling one of his three cell phones this afternoon ...