An online course about the vibrant world of Hasidic creativity begins this Wednesday, Feb. 26 at the Workers Circle. It will be taught by the Yiddish activist Eli Benedict, who hails from a Hasidi ...

The New York State Education Department will no longer provide crucial funding for two all-boys Hasidic schools in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and will ensure that all of their students are enrolled ...

The New York State Education Department is cutting off public funding to two Brooklyn yeshivas and ordering ... fight between education officials and Hasidic institutions in New York over laws ...

In the reclusive Orthodox Jewish community in New York City where I grew up, choices about whether, when and whom I would ...

Since the fall of communism in 1989, Jewish pilgrims have been visiting Bodrogkeresztur, known as Kerestir in Yiddish, in April, timed to the death of Rabbi Yeshaya Steiner, a Hasidic rabbi known ...

And in a surprise move last week — well in advance of its June deadline for compliance — the state Education Department announced that after a six-year investigation it had pulled funding for two ...

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Hundreds of pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian protesters angrily confronted each other on the streets of a mainly Orthodox Jewish Brooklyn neighborhood Tuesday night as officials said Jews were ...