Many among the secular, including me, grew up believing the sheitel, the ritual wig worn by married Orthodox and Hasidic ...

Ultra-Orthodox women in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, want to experience the joys of summer like everyone else. But that may not be possible this year, due to a lack of female lifeguards at the local ...

LOWER EAST SIDE (WABC) -- Its two worlds some assume could never collide; Hasidic women and rock and roll music. Fans of Bulletproof Stockings jammed at Arlene's Grocery on the Lower East Side ...

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A new Netflix show inspired by the true story of a woman who left the Hasidic Jewish community in Williamsburg is stirring up a lot of questions and conversations. Abby Stein, 28, says she was raised ...

Seed of Doubt, a short, Yiddish-language horror movie making film festival rounds, raises two thought-provoking questions: What makes a horror movie horrifying, and how does that change when the film ...

Adeena Kohn is an Orthodox Jewish woman is reportedly being denied a gett by her estranged husband for nearly five years. It's described as a religious document, required in Orthodox Judaism, to ...