Borough Park is home to nearly 300 synagogues and 50 religious schools, or yeshivas, but its status as an enclave of Orthodox Judaism was a long work in progress. Like many other Brooklyn ...

Four Brooklyn yeshivas filed a federal civil rights complaint on Monday against New York saying tougher review practices that found major deficiencies in the education provided at some ultra-religious ...

I did not time my book on racial classifications to coincide with litigation over affirmative action. Indeed, the book is not about affirmative action, and much of the book has nothing directly to do ...

This article is part of a symposium on the upcoming arguments in Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina and Students for Fair Admissions v. President & Fellows of Harvard College ...

A weathered sculpture that stood abandoned for decades outside a long-shuttered Catskill resort might not seem worth a second look. For Marisa Scheinfeld, the chipped, concrete carving outside the ...

In my forthcoming book, Classified, I suggest limiting preferences in higher education to descendants of enslaved Americans and residents of Indian reservations. The Supreme Court, as most readers ...

The holiday of Shemini Atzeres suffers from an identity crisis. On the one hand, its very name — the Eighth Day of Assembly — leads to the impression that it is the closing day of Sukkot, the holiday ...

NOTE TO READERS: This is a ten-part series of online articles that, with G-d’s help, I hope to transform into a larger book. It is prompted and inspired by questions I have been asked over the past ...

“Focusing on every detail, rather than buying it in a box in the store, makes for a more direct and meaningful connection,” said Meir Rapaport, who bakes matzo with relatives outside their Brooklyn ...

(JTA) — Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski, the scion of multiple Hasidic dynasties, author of more than 60 books, and a physician who became a leading authority on drug treatment and addiction, has died.