Consider investing in the sock market. Two pairs of three-foot-long white socks worn by a revered leader in the Hasidic Jewish community brought in a haul of nearly $18,000 on eBay this week. After an ...

Just days after an insular ultra-Orthodox community in New York City was widely criticized for hosting a wedding with several thousand maskless guests, the community’s leadership has announced it is ...

New York City has fined a Brooklyn synagogue thousands of dollars after keeping a wedding, with thousands of guests set to attend, hidden from authorities who would’ve forbade it from happening. Mayor ...

On Nov. 8, members of the Orthodox community were crammed inside the Yetev Lev temple in Williamsburg where no one was social distancing or wearing masks, for the wedding of Yoel Teitelbaum, a ...

The city is investigating a wedding in the Satmar Hasidic community that reportedly drew thousands of people to an indoor celebration in Brooklyn without masks, in violation of pandemic social ...

(JTA) — The head of one of the Satmar Hasidic sects slammed the United States’ announcement that it recognizes Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum of Kiryas Joel on Saturday night at ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — A Brooklyn synagogue that reportedly hosted a secret wedding with thousands of unmasked guests earlier this month is facing a hefty fine. Mayor Bill de Blasio said Monday ...

Congressman Lee Zeldin vs. Governor Kathy Hochul. Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum, one of the two Grand Rebbes of Satmar and the chief rabbi of the Satmar community in Kiryas Joel, New York, is urging his ...

NEW YORK (AP) - A Brooklyn synagogue should be investigated over reports that it hosted a secret wedding with thousands of unmasked guests earlier this month, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday.