It was late winter, and Motty was the fourth man I’d met in person over the last few months — out of the dozens I’d chatted with since the fall — in an online chatroom while still in my Hasidic ...

NEW YORK — New York State Attorney General Letitia James came out in support of federal intervention in a dispute over a Jewish housing development in the Catskills region, in a local conflict that ...

City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams has secured more than two dozen coveted Hasidic endorsements, making her the dark horse to watch in what has been a tumultuous mayoral race. Late on Monday, Speaker ...

Fleeing high housing prices in Crown Heights, some adherents of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement are moving further east to the formerly Jewish, now predominantly African-American neighborhood. Back in ...

Changing a law that chiefly affects all-boys Hasidic Jewish schools, known as yeshivas, has been a top priority among leaders of New York’s Hasidic communities, which tend to vote as a bloc. By ...