A Pakistani man was arrested in Canada this week and accused of plotting a mass shooting at a Jewish center in Brooklyn on the one-year anniversary of the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas that sparked the ...

When Abe Kugielsky first began photographing the Hasidic Jewish community in Borough Park, Brooklyn, in 2010, he was an outsider with a camera, met with resistance from a community unaccustomed to ...

Once a year, the sounds of music and prayer fill the streets of Uman. The city in Ukraine's Cherkasy region is a pilgrimage destination for tens of thousands of Orthodox Jews, who travel here to ...

The prospect of a five-way mayoral race this November has raised questions about how New York’s many demographics will vote. One that could be pivotal: Orthodox Jews. A recent UJA–Federation of New ...

When eggs were allegedly thrown at Hasidic Jews standing in front of a synagogue in the eastern Sullivan County hamlet of Woodbourne and walking along nearby Route 42 in the Town of Fallsburg, the ...

A legal battle over a three-block-long bike lane in a predominantly Orthodox Jewish Brooklyn neighborhood has become a central issue in Mayor Eric Adams’ re-election campaign. The mayor in June ...

Borough Park is home to nearly 300 synagogues and 50 religious schools, or yeshivas, but its status as an enclave of Orthodox Judaism was a long work in progress. Like many other Brooklyn ...

A macro look at where the population grew in upstate New York since 2010 shows enormous gains in Orange County. But there is a unique reason. The village of Kiryas Joel, coterminous with the town of ...

When Andrew Yang won endorsements from an array of Brooklyn-based Hasidic Jewish sects before the 2021 Democratic mayoral primary, his campaign, and multiple political insiders, touted that support as ...

Walk down the right street, take the right staircase, and behind an unmarked door you might come across a shtiebel — an informal Jewish prayer room that serves as a gathering place for a small, ...

I am horrified and heartbroken. The New York State Legislature is passing a bill to dilute and delay the implementation of education standards at yeshivas and other nonpublic schools across the state.