Rabbi Moskowitz remembers Sukkot in Czernowitz: “All year, men and women ate together but not on Sukkot. My mother blessed ...

At nineteen, I was in love with a woman. I was also engaged to a man my Hasidic (extreme sect within Orthodox Judaism) family had chosen. I followed what I believed was the will of God and stood under ...

An Hasidic woman who has spent several years fighting for a religious divorce from her husband upped the ante this week, making her prolonged plight public by taking it to the skies above Brooklyn. A ...

A concert at JCC Manhattan will celebrate “Kapelya,” the first recording of Hasidic nigunim performed exclusively by women. (JTA) — As a child growing up in the Chabad Hasidic community of Crown ...

How did a community renowned for its piety produce — and come to love — a provocative superstar? Michoel Schnitzler, who died of a heart attack at age 62 on Saturday, not only breathed new life into ...

Hasidic rabbis attended the annual International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries and gathered in prayer Friday in ...

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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 ...