— Hasidic rabbis from the Satmar sect reportedly have issued a decree barring women from pursuing higher education. The Yiddish-language decree says college education for girls is “dangerous” and ...

NEW YORK — Rabbi Moses Teitelbaum, worldwide spiritual leader of tens of thousands of Satmar Hasidim, died Monday at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. He was 91. Teitelbaum, the rebbe, or grand ...

A profoundly human tale about a young woman who leaves the Hasidic Satmar sect has universal themes for the religious and secular. Back in 2012, when Deborah Feldman’s memoir “Unorthodox” came out, ...

Borough President Marty Markowitz found himself in the middle of a simmering feud between the leaders of two rival Hasidic factions over a troubled Williamsburg waterfront development project this ...

People gather outside for the Yom Kippur prayer service at the Congregation Yetev Lev D'Satmar synagogue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Stefan Jeremiah / NY Post A wedding expected to bring 10,000 ...

Consider investing in the sock market. Two pairs of three-foot-long white socks worn by a revered leader in the Hasidic Jewish community brought in a haul of nearly $18,000 on eBay this week. After an ...

New York Mayor Bill De Blasio threatened Tuesday that he may close the Satmar Hasidic sect’s flagship synagogue in Brooklyn “once and for all,” after the group flouted measures intended to minimize ...

(JTA) — One of the world’s most influential haredi Orthodox rabbis has tested positive for the coronavirus, according to multiple news reports. It is unclear from the reports whether Rabbi Aaron ...

“This was amazingly irresponsible,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said of the event in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. By Liam Stack Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews gathered to celebrate a wedding inside a cavernous ...

Exploitation of Jewish Yemenite immigrants by an extreme, anti-Zionist sect of Orthodox Jews is indicted in Nitzan Gilady's "In Satmar Custody." But potentially shocking expose is weakened by ...

(JTA) – As COVID-19 test positivity rates continue to climb in Orthodox communities in New York, a major leader of the Satmar Hasidic sect was put on a ventilator Wednesday morning after becoming ...

(Bloomberg) -- The event was always a head-scratcher. Donald Trump was to make a campaign stop in deep-blue New York, fewer than 50 days before a presidential election that could very well be decided ...