The Vizhnitz hasidic sect is in a tizzy after discovering that dozens of falafels and other hot foods were sent in the past few days to the home of their rebbe, Rabbi Yisrael Hager, who lives in the Kiryat Vizhnitz section of Bnei Brak.
A 20-year-old Hasidic woman died of a heroin overdose in Brooklyn last month showing how even an ultra-insular religious community isn’t immune to the nation’s opioid epidemic.
It’s a kashrut shootout at the OK Corral.
A Hasidic rebbe made headlines in the ultra-Orthodox media when he danced, by holding hands with his daughter and son-in-law at their wedding in Tel Aviv on Sunday.
New documents showing Esti Weinstein’s difficult inner struggle were revealed by Hebrew-language newspaper Israel Hayom.
Sydney, Australia – The plight of “agunot,” Jewish women whose husbands refuse to grant them a divorce, is well known. There are organizations, social media campaigns and movies that address the issue.
A girls’ Orthodox Jewish day school in London is in trouble with Britain’s educations standards office for failing to teach its students about LGBT issues.
TOWN OF WAWARSING, N.Y. – The death of a 38-year-old yeshiva teacher at a Hasidic Jewish camp in southern Ulster County is not a criminal matter, a county sheriff’s lieutenant said Monday.
Family members of Otto Warmbier, the American student who fell into a coma while imprisoned in North Korea, said that Otto was Jewish but that they had hidden his Jewishness up to this point.
A Sydney synagogue may have to close because it is unable to sack its rabbi, the synagogue’s president says.