Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced on Jan. 3, 2019 that New York’s L subway line will not be shut down for 18 months after all. This will come as welcome news to the Satmar Hasidim who live in the ...

Residents of the New York town of Monroe voted this week to carve out a portion of their town to create a brand new one with an unusual name: Palm Tree. So why will a village 50 miles north of New ...

Kiryas Joel has few precedents in Diaspora history but is at home on the political and religious landscape of the United States, write David N. Myers and Nomi M. Stolzenberg. (JTA) — This past ...

Sen. Charles Schumer, addressing a crowd of thousands of Satmar Hasidim gathered in Brooklyn Tuesday night, praised the American values and “Torah values” he said they embodied, and invoked the Hebrew ...

Members of the Satmar Hasidic Jewish community in Brooklyn, photo by REUTERS/Stephanie Keith Samuel Heilman holds the Harold Proshansky Chair in Jewish Studies at the Graduate Center and is ...

Joseph Berger has been a New York Times reporter, columnist, and editor for thirty years. He is the author of numerous books including Displaced Persons: Growing Up American After the Holocaust, which ...

“My phone hasn’t stopped ringing. It’s all your fault! The Voice started this.” That’s Isaac Abraham, the first Hasidic candidate for city council, juggling one of his three cell phones this afternoon ...

The Horseshoe Theory of politics asserts that the extremes on the far right and the far left actually have more in common with each other than they do with the center. In American politics, a great ...

WILLIAMSBURG, Brooklyn — A huge group of Satmar Hasidim packed into their Williamsburg synagogue Saturday night, with no masks or social distancing evident, to celebrate the arrival of a new Torah at ...

(JTA) — One of the world’s most influential haredi Orthodox rabbis has tested positive for the coronavirus, according to multiple news reports. It is unclear from the reports whether Rabbi Aaron ...

The 2012 trial of Nechemya Weberman captivated New Yorkers: the prominent and respected counselor of the Satmar Hasidim sect stood accused of sexually abusing a young girl entrusted in his care.