Schneur Zalman Newfield knows as well as anyone what it takes to leave Orthodoxy. In his new memoir, Brooklyn Odyssey, he likens his transformation from Hasidic to secular to a butterfly’s ...

Renowned Israeli journalist and author Sivan Rahav-Meir shares her 7 unforgettable moments from the International Kinus Hashluchos in New York.

For the first time in the history of the Hasidic movement, a group of dozens yeshiva students from the Satmar Hasidic community is leaving Bnei Brak and establishing a community on Har Yona in Nof ...

Rabbi Yissachar Dov Biderman, the Lelov Rebbe, passed away this afternoon (Sunday) after collapsing in the mikveh (ritual bath) of the Hasidic community on Tzefania Street in Jerusalem. He was 84 ...

At the age of ten, Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn was arrested for the first time. He had stepped in to defend a Jewish butcher who was being beaten by a police sergeant in the marketplace of Lubavitch.

In 1992, on Yud Shevat, then Transportation Minister Moshe Katzav visited the Lubavitcher Rebbe by Sunday Dollars. After showering Katzav with special blessings, the Rebbe went on to raise “the ...

As police in NY investigate the man who drove a sedan repeatedly into the entrance of the Chabad Lubavitch world headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn on Jan. 28 in what NYC Comptroller Mark ...

Phylisa Wisdom, the executive director of the New York Jewish Agenda, shares Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s criticism of Israel’s treatment of Gaza, but supports its right to exist as a Jewish state. By Sally ...

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NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has appointed the director of a progressive Jewish group, Phylisa Wisdom of the New York Jewish Agenda, to head his Office to Combat Antisemitism, a ...

Responding to a Times of Israel report that the extremist Jerusalem Faction and the Satmar Hasidic faction are paying tens of thousands of shekels to draft dodgers after they are released from prison, ...

At last year’s mayoral interfaith breakfast, Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum came equipped with a literal message. It was a sign that read, “Mr. Mayor: show mercy to our immigrant friends!” Kleinbaum, a ...