Hasidic

Fire damages historic Sadigura synagogue in Chernivtsi, suspect mentally unstable

Local rabbi says suspect also tried to torch a church last month, stresses community does not feel rising antisemitism in the city.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Fire damages historic Sadigura synagogue in Chernivtsi, suspect mentally unstable
Nechemya Weberman convicted for 103 years in prison.

Ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn man who abused child may see 103-year sentence reduced - NYT

The message Brooklyn's district attorney was sending was that “politics matters more than protecting children,” said Boorey Deutsch, the husband of the woman who Weberman abused when she was a girl.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Candidate Zohran Mamdani meets with Satmar Hasidic leaders and families during his campaign for mayor, Williamsburgh, New York, October 2025.

NYC’s yeshivas can offer a well-rounded education. Will Mamdani help them get there? - opinion

Hasidic boys' schools dedicate less than two hours/week to secular learning. This educational neglect is tragically common and feeds poverty, demanding urgent action from the new NYC administration.

|ByADINA MERMELSTEIN KONIKOFF/JTA
An Orthodox Jewish boy walks by a Yeshiva school bus, as New York City, April 9, 2019.

NY state budget weakens oversight over yeshiva learning in blow to secular education advocates

The outcome represents a dramatic victory for the state’s Hasidic leaders.

|ByASAF ELIA-SHALEV/JTA

NY county’s Republican ad warns of a Hasidic ‘takeover’

A Facebook campaign ad from an upstate New York county’s Republican Party has been slammed as anti-Semitic and “deeply disturbing.”

AUGUST 30, 2019ByMARCY OSTER/JTA
Orthodox Jews of the Satmar Hasidim celebrate the Jewish holiday of Lag Ba'Omer in the village of Kiryas Joel, New York

Housing developers sue New York officials for trying to keep out Hasidic Jews

The developers have asked the court to reverse the town’s building-permit denials for homes that comply with approved plans.

JULY 29, 2019ByMARCY OSTER/JTA
Followers of ultra-orthodox Jewish rabbi Moses Teitelbaum of the Satmar Hassidim pack the Congregation Yetev Lev D'Satmar in the town of Kirays Joel, New York