Footage shows assailant grabbing Jewish man's neck, uttering threats; US assistant attorney general for civil rights vows investigation of 'horrific' incident ...

Yosel Tiefenbrun looked in the mirror and he liked what he saw. The 23-year-old Chabad rabbi and apprentice at Maurice Sedwell, a bespoke tailor’s shop on London’s Savile Row, was wearing a vintage ...

One of the most striking ironies of the Nechemya Weberman trial, which ended with his conviction on 59 counts of sexual abuse, was the revelation that the unlicensed therapist was a member of the ...

Jacob Daskal, head of a private Orthodox crime patrol, took a 15-year-old runaway to his upstate home. Her family thought he was helping. By Colin Moynihan Jacob Daskal, who founded an ultra-Orthodox ...

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An Orthodox Jewish man was attacked on the New York City subway last night, in an incident that was recorded and published on social media. In the footage, two men approach a group of Orthodox men, ...

Anthropologist Samuel Shuman and Yiddish linguist Chaya Nove recently conducted a unique sort of joint fieldwork: they ...

A mass demonstration of ultra-orthodox Jewish men in Jerusalem — AHMAD GHARABLI Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men, dressed in black, rallied in Jerusalem on Thursday to protest against military ...

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Coming back home at 5am sunrise, I was just beginning to digest the grand event I was lucky to witness and cover: the wedding of the grandson of one of the most influential spiritual leaders in Israel ...

‘No one helped us. No one stood up or blocked the attackers,’ says one of the victims.