The New York affiliate of the ACLU, stoked outrage and debate this week after suggesting that funding for yeshiva schools is taking money away from students of color in public schools, based on an ...

(RNS) — We are reeling from the report on Hasidic education. We needed to hear about this and we need to help repair it. (RNS) — I have been struggling with this column for two days. In fact, I was ...

At nineteen, I was in love with a woman. I was also engaged to a man my Hasidic (extreme sect within Orthodox Judaism) family had chosen. I followed what I believed was the will of God and stood under ...

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The renowned scholar, whose forthcoming book aims to show the world of softer side of Hasidism, opens up on his philosophy, his motivations and his politics. (JTA) — Rabbi Art Green is a scholar of ...

“When I left my husband so my kids and I could survive, the community left me.” Thus spoke a heartbroken Hasidic woman, who was rejected by her community when she fled her 16-year marriage to an ...

Welcome to Love Transcends, a special project by Cosmopolitan that celebrates the resilience, wisdom, hope, and joy of the trans community as its members navigate romantic love. Through in-depth ...

How did a community renowned for its piety produce — and come to love — a provocative superstar? Michoel Schnitzler, who died of a heart attack at age 62 on Saturday, not only breathed new life into ...

Audiences seem hungry for content about Orthodox Jews. Unorthodox was a runaway success. My Unorthodox Life milks Julia Haart’s story of leaving Haredi life in Monsey. A new horror movie mines Hasidic ...