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 ...

I have said it for years, and I will say it again — this time louder: Satmar ideology is synonymous with Neturei Karta. The difference is one of tone, not theology; one wears shtreimels, the other ...

There is a special kind of blindness that afflicts certain Jews — a blindness not of the eyes but of the soul. It is the blindness of the Satmar demonstrators marching in Brooklyn, chanting “Judaism ...

Mamdani hits the bars; Cuomo the Orthodox radio circuit; and Sliwa the Rebbe’s Ohel. This piece first ran as part of The Countdown, our daily newsletter rounding up all the developments in the New ...

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 ...

Just now tuning in to the New York City mayoral election or feeling utterly overwhelmed by it? As early voting is underway, and Tuesday’s election nears, here’s a look at what each mayoral candidate ...

There is an old Jewish anecdote about the late former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger (who died in Nov. 2023, aged 100), who decides to make for himself a custom-made beautiful three-piece suit of ...

NEW YORK — A split emerged in the Satmar Hasidic movement in New York City on Sunday over endorsements for the mayoral campaign of the far-left anti-Israel activist Zohran Mamdani. Local media ...

From Coney Island to the Bronx, the candidates in New York City’s mayoral race spent Monday crisscrossing the five boroughs in a final, frenzied day of campaigning on the eve of Election Day. As ...

The year was 1056 from Creation (2704 B.C.E.), and Lemech, the ninth-generation descendant of Adam, begat a son, “and he named him Noach [נֹחַ], saying: This one will comfort us [יְנַחֲמֵנוּ] for our ...

Some surviving Hasidic Jews went to Antwerp, London or Montreal, but most went to Israel and to the United States. Some important rebbes also survived the war and emigrated, with each forming the ...