A theatrical production based on the memoir of an ex-Hasidic transgender rabbi and activist, set to premiere in New York early next year, is scrambling to find a new home after its landlord rejected ...

(New York Jewish Week) — As a Hasidic mom raising a family in Houston, Leah Lax had seven children ages 9 and under — including an infant, and a toddler with health issues, born just 11 months apart.

Like many local front-line workers right now, EMT Goldy Landau is working overtime — as many as 80 hours per week. Unlike most, however, the 28-year-old grew up well outside the mainstream: in Kiryas ...

(JTA) — Abby Stein remembers two things well about her first-ever editorial photo shoot after coming out as an ex-Orthodox trans woman. The first was that the shoot, in her bedroom for Vogue magazine ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Collage of ex-Hasidic reggae singer Matisyahu at home in Piermont, NY holding a microphone and candles, photo by Michael Falco.

The couple claim they received virtually no secular education during their youth and it had a negative impact on their lives. Clara Wasserstein and Yochonon Lowen arrive at the Montreal courthouse ...

A Hasid once told me about going to the rebbe of a large sect to ask permission to attend graduate school. The rebbe not only gave his blessing; he said more people from the community should go too.

When Keith Thomas, a clinical researcher-turned-novelist and filmmaker, was studying for his master’s degree in religious education at Hebrew Union College, he overheard an unsettling story that would ...

NYPD surveillance footage shows a man, dressed as a Hasidic Jew, shooting Jermain Dixon. Dixon was a "reformed gangster" who had recently been released after serving 19 years in jail. Detectives are ...

(New York Jewish Week) — A Jewish comedian’s planned production was also booted from space owned by the Catholic Church. The landlord? The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York. The production has ...