This is the last of a three-part series on insular enclaves of ultra-Orthodox Jews, the struggles they face, and the controversies that follow them. Chaim Fishman had all the requisite markers of a ...

(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood is known as a center of gentrification and a gathering place for the cool young hipsters of New York City. A short walk ...

Esperanza, a domestic worker in a suburb of New York City, cleans the homes of four ultra-Orthodox families every week for $12 an hour. About a month ago, the mother of one of the families called ...

SOUTH BLOOMING GROVE, N.Y. — The backers of a proposed 600-home development for Hasidic Jews in a rural village in New York State say the completed project would house more people than currently live ...

CHESTER – Greens at Chester, the 431-home development that’s being built on a 110-acre site west of the Whispering Hills subdivision, will be a predominately Hasidic community, and it could eventually ...

New York Attorney General Letitia James is accusing a Hudson Valley town and county of "a concerted, systematic effort" to keep Hasidic Jewish families from moving into the town, where a developer ...

State Attorney General Letitia James is accusing a Hudson Valley town and county of "a concerted, systematic effort" to keep Hasidic Jewish families from moving into the town, where a developer says ...

A standoff over permits to start a massive housing project in the Catskills has erupted into a federal discrimination case, with the developer accusing town officials of conspiring to stop an influx ...

The very things that make the place I grew up in unique and beautiful may contribute to the spread of the coronavirus. By Frimet Goldberger Ms. Goldberger is a writer. My mother is a Hasidic woman ...

MONTREAL (JTA) — A Quebec court ordered a group of Hasidic Jews to leave their summer homes by the end of the month because they are too noisy and slovenly. The Quebec Superior Court ruled that the ...

Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood is known as a center of gentrification and a gathering place for the cool young hipsters of New York City. A short walk from the Lower East Side over the ...