Ultra-Orthodox women in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, want to experience the joys of summer like everyone else. But that may not be possible this year, due to a lack of female lifeguards at the local ...

LOWER EAST SIDE (WABC) -- Its two worlds some assume could never collide; Hasidic women and rock and roll music. Fans of Bulletproof Stockings jammed at Arlene's Grocery on the Lower East Side ...

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Adeena Kohn is an Orthodox Jewish woman is reportedly being denied a gett by her estranged husband for nearly five years.

Samuel Heilman, a distinguished professor of sociology at the City University of New York and an expert on Hasidic life, said that Amazon allows Hasidic men and women to avoid face-to-face ...

Brooklyn Law School (BLS) has always been a forerunner of diversity, and on Wednesday night it celebrated that when the school honored the country’s first-ever Hasidic female elected official — Judge ...

Seed of Doubt, a short, Yiddish-language horror movie making film festival rounds, raises two thought-provoking questions: What makes a horror movie horrifying, and how does that change when the film ...