Russian Air Force SU-24 jets have flown so intensively over Syria that they have needed to receive replacement engines, new satellite imagery of a Syrian airbase in Latakia, used to house Russian air assets, has shown.
A Williamsburg charity is suing the city for not getting a tax break in what insiders say is mayoral payback for its rabbi’s role in the circumcision controversy.
When Gitty Katz learned she was pregnant with twins earlier this winter, she was overcome with despair.
Hasidic rabbis from the Satmar sect reportedly have issued a decree barring women from pursuing higher education.
The Satmar “Grand Rebbe” Zalman Teitelbaum paid a visit to convicted sexual abuser Nechemya Weberman in prison last month, according to a Yiddish-language newspaper serving the Satmar Hasidic community that has published a series of favorable articles about the former therapist accused of sexually abusing an adolescent girl starting from when the victim was 12…
DetailsA Brooklyn rabbi accused of sexually assaulting several teenage boys was sentenced on Tuesday to 60 days in jail and six years on probation.
A Brooklyn matzoh factory owned by a Satmar Hasidic congregation burned on Tuesday after the owners failed to install a sprinkler system, workers and the New York Fire Department said.
Members of the Satmar sect were called upon to protest outside UN Headquarters during Netanyahu’s address at the General Assembly.
Some 3,000 followers of the Satmar Rebbe in Williamsburg took it to the streets of Manhattan Tuesday evening to protest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over his speech to Congress and his claim that he’s an emissary on behalf of world Jewry to warn of a nuclear Iran.
The leader of the world’s largest anti-Zionist hassidic sect surprised followers on Monday when he condemned protests being held by anti-draft activists in Israel.
