Federal agents are currently conducting searches in the ultra-Orthodox village of Kiryas Joel in Orange County, New York. A spokeswoman for the FBI confirmed an ongoing search but declined to comment further.
Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox supporters demonstrated around the country on Thursday in protest over the arrest by military police of a yeshiva student who allegedly failed to report to an army enlistment center to arrange an exemption from military service.
A NYPD investigation into an ultra-orthodox man believed to have attempted to abduct a Brooklyn teenager was closed this week after the victim stopped cooperating with police due to communal pressure, the Daily News reported on Wednesday.
“The whole system works like a trap. They just trap you from when you’re born to when you die.”
Evening was beginning to fall on the playground that one sees from the balcony of the Heller family home in Beit Shemesh.
NEW YORK – The Transportation Security Administration has honored Agudath Israel of America’s Washington director, Rabbi Abba Cohen, for his “exceptional contribution” to help facilitate smoother airport screening for ultra-Orthodox Jews.
A man who descends from a Hasidic “dynasty” is transitioning into a woman — enraging members of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community she left behind.