Just days after an insular ultra-Orthodox community in New York City was widely criticized for hosting a wedding with several thousand maskless guests, the community’s leadership has announced it is ...

Consider investing in the sock market. Two pairs of three-foot-long white socks worn by a revered leader in the Hasidic Jewish community brought in a haul of nearly $18,000 on eBay this week. After an ...

(JTA) — Large crowds gathered Monday afternoon for the funeral of a beloved Hasidic rabbi in Williamsburg, home to the Satmar Hasidic community in Brooklyn. Thousands gathered at the funeral, ...

On Nov. 8, members of the Orthodox community were crammed inside the Yetev Lev temple in Williamsburg where no one was social distancing or wearing masks, for the wedding of Yoel Teitelbaum, a ...

The city is investigating a wedding in the Satmar Hasidic community that reportedly drew thousands of people to an indoor celebration in Brooklyn without masks, in violation of pandemic social ...

Congressman Lee Zeldin vs. Governor Kathy Hochul. Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum, one of the two Grand Rebbes of Satmar and the chief rabbi of the Satmar community in Kiryas Joel, New York, is urging his ...

Rav Gross is the tall man pictured center. Most of us think Orthodox Jewish life in pre-war Eastern Europe was rather monolithic. We all know there were chassidim and misnagdim, but few of us are ...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Sunday blasted a Hasidic synagogue for hosting a secret maskless wedding with thousands of guests, saying the potential coronavirus superspreader event was “a blatant disregard of ...