All but four Hasidic Jewish students charged with tunneling under a holy Brooklyn synagogue agreed to plea deals or ...

Freida lamented that she could not show us inside a Hasidic home, mainly because the kosher kitchen is quite a sight. “These women spend nothing on vacations,” she said, “They put it all ...

The Hasidic home is bilingual, with English and Yiddish sometimes mixing together (many English words have found their way into Brooklyn Hasidic Yiddish, and a Hasid speaking English will often ...

In many Hasidic Jewish communities ... it is a reminder of their new role as a wife and a partner in building a Jewish home, emphasizing values such as modesty, humility, and dedication to ...

This has been going on for decades. In fact, one of us (Winston), began doing Ph.D. research in 2003 on people leaving Hasidic communities, and learned then how little instruction Hasidic boys ...

In “Hasidism: Writings on Devotion, Community, and Life in the Modern World,” Ariel Evan Mayse and Sam Berrin Shonkoff present students and scholars with a vibrant and polyphonic set of Hasidic ...

“It makes sense if you look at the population we’re serving,” the Williamsburg administrator said, noting that men in Hasidic communities have the most active lives outside the ...

Taking place mostly in the different focal points of Brooklyn's Hasidic neighborhoods--the home, the workplace, the streets, the schools, the besmedrash (central synagogue), and the shtibl ...