On a recent Sunday, about 200 young Hasidic women in long skirts and wigs and men with wide-brimmed black hats and free-flowing beards parked their baby strollers along the tree-lined boulevards ...

A Brooklyn thief ran up behind a Hasidic Jewish man last week and swiped the traditional fur hat he was wearing from atop his head, police said Sunday.

The thief who swiped a traditional fur hat from atop a Hasidic Jewish man’s head last week was captured in a second surveillance clip.

An online course about the vibrant world of Hasidic creativity begins this Wednesday, Feb. 26 at the Workers Circle. It will be taught by the Yiddish activist Eli Benedict, who hails from a ...

Surveillance video captured a man grabbing a traditional hat off the victim's head. It happened Friday at Wallabout Street and Marcy Avenue in Williamsburg at 6:15 p.m.

Ben Faulding is a black black-hat: an African-American Hasidic Jew — and he is proud of his twin identities. But he thinks that he was nearly killed for the color of his skin Wednesday — while ...

The American Hasidic shtiebel traces its beginnings to the first Eastern European synagogue established in New York in 1852, at a time when a small but steady stream of Jews from central Poland ...

Jewish Hats In Fashion: The Lasting Influence of Orthodox Judaism on Men's Style How Jewish laws have dictated the way men cover their heads for centuries.

The Hasidic schools face the prospect of significantly tougher oversight after New York State officials recently ruled that a private Hasidic Jewish boys’ school in Brooklyn was violating the ...

My devotional reading currently includes the late Elie Wiesel’s book “Souls on Fire: Portraits and Legends of the Hasidic Masters.” (Vintage Books, 1972) This paperback has been sitting on ...

Aren’t you shvitzing in that? To those of us who recently made the gleeful switch to shorts and tees from pants and sweaters, the garb of some Orthodox and pretty much all Hasidic Jews can look ...

They are Hasidic Jews - the descendants of a small group of ardent followers whose Eastern European villages were all but decimated during the Holocaust.