Rabbi Moshe Indig said Mamdani convinced him through quiet engagement, but mainstream Jewish groups remain skeptical of the ...

Borough President Marty Markowitz found himself in the middle of a simmering feud between the leaders of two rival Hasidic factions over a troubled Williamsburg waterfront development project this ...

Rabbis from Haredi communities appealed to commute sentence of Nechemya Weberman, imprisoned for abusing an adolescent in 2013, arguing that his sentence was disproportionate The post NY Jewish ...

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani heads into Tuesday’s mayoral election without the backing of an influential Satmar Hasidic community after a political firestorm broke out over a rogue ...

RAMAPO − A Hasidic rabbi is suing Ramapo and its supervisor over the continued display of the Israeli flag over Town Hall. Leibish Iliovitz, described in court papers as an ultra-Orthodox Hasidic ...

FBI agents reportedly arrested more than a dozen members of Hasidic communities in Williamsburg, Monsey, and Kiryas Joel this morning in connection with a mortgage fraud investigation. An FBI ...

KIRYAS JOEL, N.Y. (AP) — Kiryas Joel is a fast-growing island of ultra-Orthodox Satmar Hasidic Jews in a suburban stretch of New York’s Hudson Valley. Sidewalks are busy with mothers in head coverings ...

Nearly 20,000 are expected to celebrate community's revival and marvelous growth of its yeshiva system - defying its detractors and naysayers and challenging environment - at Satmar's largest annual ...

Zohran Mamdani is stepping up his Jewish outreach, as he holds private meetings with rabbis and other leaders across New York City who oppose his stance on Israel. By Lisa Lerer and Katie Glueck ...

The lawsuit, filed by a Satmar Hasidic rabbi, says flying the Israeli flag violates the state constitution and the Establishment Clause in the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment. Ramapo, and other ...