Emil Weinstein has a lot of Pisces in his chart. “I’m a Virgo sun, a Pisces moon, and a Pisces rising,” he tells me as sit in ...

According to Hasidic community members, the original ordinances proposed zoning changes that unfairly target and restrict the growth of the Orthodox Jewish population in the city, Yeshiva World ...

A trio of troublemakers sped through Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in a white car shooting pellet guns and gel guns at people dressed in traditional Hasidic Jewish garb, hitting at least seven persons ...

Having never studied Hasidism, I have learned a lot about this branch of Judaism, which seems to have originated in Central Europe in the 1700s. The pioneering Hasidic leaders were inspiring ...

During our conversation, Hoffman breaks down how she went from a Hasidic Jewish family of 10 siblings to the alt-comedy world, why she has rejected the opportunity to perform stand-up on late ...

at West 34th Street, in 1997. Like its founders, many of B&H’s employees are Satmar Hasidic Jews — the shop is closed on Saturdays in observance of Shabbat, and kosher candies are available ...

He also said, despite evidence to the contrary, that his nine adopted sons came from Jewish families. At the trial, he was still sporting payos, the sidecurls grown by Hasidic men, though he did ...

Cohen had also claimed that he grew up speaking Yiddish as a Hasidic Jew in Williamsburg, but was actually born with the name Jeffrey Lujan Vejil in Odessa, Texas in 1984. He changed his name ...

After gradually leaving the Hasidic community starting in 2012, Stein repudiated Judaism, before reclaiming the parts of it that she found meaningful. She is now a rabbi at a progressive synagogue ...

At least one member of the local Hasidic Jewish community was present for the city-led meetings to devise a new ordinance, officials said Thursday. The introduction of the new ordinances is ...