In case you were wondering about Abby Stein’s preferred bagel order, it’s a sesame bagel with tuna, tomatoes and pickles.
It’s the lack of humanity.” Beth Jacob Ohev Sholom is the oldest Orthodox synagogue in Brooklyn and the only one in Williamsburg that isn’t Hasidic, according to long-time members.
(JTA) — A Belgian model was spit at and chased for walking completely naked through the largely Hasidic Brooklyn neighborhood of Williamsburg. Marisa Papen and her crew undertook the photo shoot ...
Today there are twelve principal Hasidic courts, though many of the smaller ones still exist. Williamsburg, Brooklyn, was a community of Orthodox, but increasingly westernized, Jews from Germany ...
The Hasidic parts of Crown Heights, Williamsburg, and Boro Park are lively islands of traditional Jewishness in the midst of larger, racially diverse, working and middle class neighborhoods.
A joint investigation by WNYC and the New York Daily News found that in heavily Hasidic sections of Williamsburg, more than 30 percent of residents get Section 8 housing subsidies. NEW YORK (JTA ...
Rabbi Moshe Landa of Williamsburg instructed his congregation to pray for President Donald Trump during Sabbath services, deviating from traditional political neutrality in the Hasidic community.
The New York State Education Department will no longer provide crucial funding for two all-boys Hasidic schools in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and will ensure that all of their students are enrolled ...
The spot is easily recognizable by its bright yellow saloon doors on South 6th Street, perched between Williamsburg’s hipster lofts and Hasidic Jewish enclave. After he had a new bicycle stolen ...