The main synagogue of a Brooklyn ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect hosted yet another mammoth wedding celebration in defiance of COVID-19 rules Monday, with thousands of mask-free revelers in attendance.

The day after the death of Rabbi Naftuli Halberstam, rebbe of the Bobov chasidim, his half-brother Benzion sat at the Bobover rebbe’s designated place of honor — the raised platform in the middle of ...

Just last week, a photo of a Hasidic rabbi from Borough Park wearing a mask outdoors went viral, even prompting one of New York City’s top health officials to cite him as a model of responsible ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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. BOROUGH PARK, Brooklyn — The NYPD was ...

When I was a just few months past my bar-mitzvah, in the spring of 1964,, I went one day to visit my father at work. Back then, he had a position in Crown Heights as the executive director of the ...

When the Yiddish newspaper Der Blatt set out to explain how a massive wedding for the grandson of the Satmar grand rabbi took place despite pandemic limits on gatherings, it waited until after the ...

Key Hasidic groups are endorsing Republican Lee Zeldin (R-Suffolk) for governor over Gov. Kathy Hochul in the latest sign that the incumbent is struggling with historically Democratic constituencies ...