The Avnei Nezer gave a special entrance exam for the young by, then ordained as a rabbi at 18. To earn a living, he invested ...

Zohran Mamdani is making a direct appeal to Brooklyn’s Hasidic community, targeting an influential constituency that often votes based on rabbinical guidance. In an open letter written in Hasidic ...

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 ...

Hundreds of members of Montreal’s Hasidic communities marched through the city on Tuesday to protest Israel’s plan to extend compulsory military service to ultra-Orthodox men. The demonstrators, from ...

A dispute breaks out in the Satmar Hasidic movement in New York City over which candidate to endorse in the upcoming mayoral election. Local media reported earlier today that Rabbi Moishe Indig, a ...

The Princeton Institute for Hasidic Thought invites you to join us on Sunday, November 9 at Princeton University for a symposium exploring the role of Hasidic thought, an eighteenth-century tradition ...

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18:36, Thu, Oct 23, 2025 Updated: 18:55, Thu, Oct 23, 2025 Ukrainian special forces carried out a lethal revenge attack on Russian paratroopers, accused of committing war crimes. The daring operation ...

Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men packed the streets and sidewalks for blocks around the Israeli consulate in New York City on Sunday to protest the potential end of the Israeli Haredi ...

The military police last night (Thursday) arrested two haredi brothers who did not report for duty in the IDF at their home in the city of Ramla. The arrests add to a series of detentions of yeshiva ...

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s Jewish community — the largest in the United States — abounds with anxiety and friction a day ahead of an election that could give the city its first Muslim mayor.