Discover how Lipa Schmeltzer transforms Hasidic music by mixing tradition with modern sounds and creative expression.

For almost 130 years, New York State has required private and non-public schools to offer a curriculum “substantially equivalent” to those offered in local public schools. That requirement has been ...

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Over the past several months, The New York Times has published investigative stories focusing on Hasidic schools in New York which have been derided by critics including the Anti-Defamation League, ...

(JTA) — As a child growing up in the Chabad hasidic community of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Chana Raskin was immersed in a male soundscape. Her father brought her with him to synagogue on Shabbat and ...

An upstate judge’s recent ruling on substantially equivalent education for nonpublic schools is highly problematic for Hasidic families. On the one hand, the decision by Albany state Supreme Court ...

NETANYA, Israel (AP) — Ultra-Orthodox Jews from the Sanz Hasidic dynasty celebrated the Jewish holiday of Tu BiShvat, the “New Year of the Trees,” in Netanya, Israel. Anker has launched an ‘Earth Day’ ...

The Viznitz Hasidic community's plans to incorporate an almost 1.5-square-mile village in the Catskills has cleared its first hurdle and may be headed to a referendum. The supervisors of two Sullivan ...

(JTA) As many as 50,000 Jews traveled to a Hungarian town for the anniversary of a noted rabbi’s death, marking significant growth for the annual pilgrimage and generating what the town’s mayor called ...

BOROUGH PARK, Brooklyn (WABC) -- An all-women group of EMT's in Brooklyn are breaking a glass ceiling - but not the one you think. Dressed in purple and ready to save lives are the Hasidic Jewish ...