UMAN, Ukraine — For all but a week a year, the city of Uman is like any small city in Ukraine. The economy usually revolves around a bus factory and some grain processing facilities. But every fall, ...

Over the past several months, The New York Times has published investigative stories focusing on Hasidic schools in New York which have been derided by critics including the Anti-Defamation League, ...

July 17 - A video of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish singer performing at an event where Senator J.D. Vance delivered a speech in February has been falsely described online as showing Republican National ...

LONDON, March 30 (Reuters) - Russia denied on Wednesday a claim by Ukraine that it had struck the town of Uman, visited by tens of thousands of Hasidic Jews each year, and showed pictures of what it ...

The measure was proposed in response to a New York Times investigation that revealed widespread use of such punishment in Hasidic Jewish private schools. By Brian M. Rosenthal and Eliza Shapiro New ...

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 ...

(RNS) — The vast majority of Hasidic parents and students cherish the education offered by their yeshivas. (RNS) — The flyers in the synagogues in my Staten Island neighborhood read: “Chaverim Jr. — ...

Audiences seem hungry for content about Orthodox Jews. Unorthodox was a runaway success. My Unorthodox Life milks Julia Haart’s story of leaving Haredi life in Monsey. A new horror movie mines Hasidic ...

“When I left my husband so my kids and I could survive, the community left me.” Thus spoke a heartbroken Hasidic woman, who was rejected by her community when she fled her 16-year marriage to an ...

Amid calls for intervention, the state Board of Regents is set to vote this week on new rules for holding private schools to minimum academic standards. By Eliza Shapiro and Brian M. Rosenthal New ...