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Anti-Zionist Hasidic man faces deportation to Israel after US protest arrest

Yehonatan Ovadia, an anti-Zionist Hasidic Jew detained by ICE after joining protests against Israel in New York, is now facing deportation back to Israel after his US visa extension was denied.

Yehonatan Ovadia, left, holds a Palestinian flag while participating in an anti-Israel protest alongside other anti-Zionist Hasidic Jews who are holding signs from the Neturei Karta group.
US President Donald Trump meets with Reb Aharon Teitelbaum and Reb Zalman Leib Teitelbaum at the White House. September 4, 2026.

The critics saw hassidim, but the White House saw American Jewish leaders - opinion

US President Donald Trump meets with Reb Aharon Teitelbaum and Reb Zalman Leib Teitelbaum at the White House. September 4, 2026.

Trump meeting brings estranged Satmar Rebbes face to face for first time in decades

Martin Marks, Special Assistant to the President and Director of Jewish Engagement.

Editor's Notes: The man who decides which Jews the president hears - comment


Two Israelis shot in Nablus, Joseph's Tomb vandalized again

Right-wing MKs say they intend to visit the tomb on Monday night, against orders of IDF.

An Israeli soldier prays together with other worshippers inside Joseph's Tomb in the West Bank

Ex-Hasidic trans activist Abby Stein photographed by Annie Leibovitz

Abby Stein is an activist for LGBTQ+ inclusion in Jewish communities and beyond.

US photographer Annie Leibovitz poses for a photograph during a press preview of her exhibition 'WOMEN: New Portraits' at Wapping Hydraulic Power Station in London, Britain, January 13, 2016.

Ex-Hassid who advised ‘Unorthodox’ comes out as trans

Lili Rosen, the ex-Hasidic Jew who advised popular Netflix series 'Unorthodox,' came out amid her translating a children's sexuality guide into Yiddish

 “God knows that if I as a teenager had access to this, it would have been inordinately helpful and beneficial to me in my journey. I may have even come out 20 years ago, or 30 years ago,” Rosen said.

How Satmar Hasidim used liberal values to create an American theocracy

Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic village in Upstate New York, is an enclave of Satmer Hasidim that has their own legal traditions and customs.

Satmar Hasidim in the Yetev Lev D’Satmar synagogue in the town of Kiryas Joel, New York

The struggles and spirituality of the TikTok hassid

In just 250 pages, Oshman, a mother of four who lives with her family in London, tells her life story, from her childhood growing up in Israel, through her IDF service and professional success.

 VOLUNTEERS ORGANIZE donated goods for delivery to families of building collapse victims in Surfside, Florida, in June. The author believes in the power of such positive religious action even when negative things happen.

Ultra-Orthodox mayor arrested in connection with two unsolved murders

Authorities suspect that the hasidic sect Shuvu Banim, led by convicted sex offender rabbi Eliezer Berland, was involved in the crimes.

Rabbi Eliezer Berland (left), a convicted sex offender.

Three Berland sect members arrested in 30-year-old murder cases

The three suspects are members of Rabbi Eliezer Berland's Shuvu Banim sect of the Breslov Hassidic community.

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish pilgrims pray next to the tomb of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov during the celebration of Rosh Hashanah holiday, amid the coronavirus outbreak in Uman, Ukraine, September 19, 2020

Our Jewish past can teach us how to be better

From the Bible to Benjamin Franklin, here's how our history teaches you to have a better character.

 A tightrope walker performs during the opening ceremony of the Carnival in Venice.

Rabbi Yoel Kahn, leading student of Lubavitcher Rebbe, passes away

Kahn was known for transcribing Schneerson's talks and teachings and disseminating them to communities around the world for over 70 years.

Rabbi Yoel HaKohen Kahn, known simply as Reb Yoel, was chief scribe of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, for over 40 years. Seen here in a familiar pose listening to the Rebbe teach at the farbrengen gathering of 12 Tammuz 1983.

Hasidic Jews are the real counterculture in gentrified Brooklyn

There’s a variety of reasons why they end up becoming distanced, and they see it as a way of protecting themselves and their community from negative influences.

A man arrives at a mass gathering of Satmar Hasidic Jews in the Brooklyn borough of New York December 2, 2015