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.

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

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

 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


Hulu’s hit show ‘Ramy’ is a perfect lens into modern religious life

The rhythms of religiously observant life are misunderstood, even to those inside of it.

Ramy Hassan (played by Ramy Youssef) and Zainab (played by MaameYaa Boafo) in a scene from the second season of the Hulu show “Ramy.” (A24)

New York Hasidic school found operating with ‘hundreds of students inside’

A school in the Hasidic village of Kiryas Joel in New York was ordered to close after it was found operating with hundreds of students in its building.

Kiryas Joel, New York.

Mitchell Silk to 'Post': Community has been with me through whole process

Silk made history last week when he became the first hassidic Jew to be appointed as Assistant Secretary in the US.

Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C

New York City police break up another Orthodox funeral as crowds gather

Dozens of police officers directed a large group of visibly Orthodox Jews away from the area, many of whom wore masks and stood in the street. Some were crowded together behind yellow police tape.

Members of the Hasidic Jewish community walk through the Borough Park neighborhood, during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID19) in the Brooklyn borough of New York, U.S., April 8, 2020

Shulem on being the first Hasidic musician to sign with major record label

"First of all, success means being able to provide for my family."

Shulem Lemmer is a pop star in his community -- and still a cantor, too.

First-ever hassidic Jew appointed as US assistant secretary

Mitchell (Moyshe) Silk will be the Assistant Secretary of Treasury for International Markets.

The White House

Hasidic community near Montreal under lockdown demonstrates against police

Boisbriand, a Hasidic enclave of 4,000 just north of Montreal, was ordered into a 14-day lockdown on March 29 after a coronavirus outbreak

A police officer is called over to speak with a man who wished to leave the Tosh Jewish community of Boisbriand as private security and police maintain a quarantine due to coronavirus disease (COVID-19) near Montreal, Quebec, Canada March 30, 2020

Quebec Hasidic Jewish community under quarantine due to coronavirus oubreak

The region's public health department noted that there have been 10 confirmed cases of coronavirus discovered among members of the Tosh Hasidic community.

Quebec boreal forest

100 people test positive for coronavirus in Hasidic Brooklyn neighborhood

The results have come since the clinic began testing on Friday morning.

Dirshu students taking the tests in Boro Park, Brooklyn

Netflix returns to Jewish content with release of 'Unorthodox'

The show, about a young woman leaving hasidic orthodoxy for a new life in Germany, is the platform's first Yiddish language show.

Shira Haas in the Israeli drama 'Princess.' (Credit: Yes)