In many Hasidic courts, rebbes appointed professional cantors — often backed by choirs — whose compositions helped shape the spiritual atmosphere of the court. One such figure was Yosef Volynetz, ...
WILLIAMSBURG, Brooklyn (WABC) -- A woman is accused of making anti-Semitic remarks and punching a Hasidic man in the throat before stealing his phone in Brooklyn. The attack happened Wednesday near ...
A Brooklyn judge on Monday berated a rebellious crew of Hasidic Jewish students charged with digging a secret tunnel under a prominent Crown Heights synagogue — even as four defiantly demanded a trial ...
I am horrified and heartbroken. The New York State Legislature is passing a bill to dilute and delay the implementation of education standards at yeshivas and other nonpublic schools across the state.
Six people were arrested after anti-Israel protesters clashed with Hasidic Jewish locals outside a prominent Brooklyn synagogue where Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir was making an ...
BROOKLYN, New York (WABC) -- A woman in Brooklyn made history Thursday, becoming the first female Hasidic judge in US history after voters elected her to the bench in September. And despite all the ...
City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams has secured more than two dozen coveted Hasidic endorsements, making her the dark horse to watch in what has been a tumultuous mayoral race. Late on Monday, Speaker ...
The decision is the first time that the State Department of Education has withheld money from private Hasidic schools for not teaching sufficient math and English skills. By Eliza Shapiro and Brian M.
The clothes make the man, and if John Galliano’s fashion week attire is doing anything for him, it’s turning him into an object of contempt yet again. The disgraced designer has made significant ...
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