A standoff over permits to start a massive housing project in the Catskills has erupted into a federal discrimination case, with the developer accusing town officials of conspiring to stop an influx ...

BROWNSVILLE & CROWN HEIGHTS —AS CROWN HEIGHTS home prices surge past $1.2 million, Hasidic families from the Chabad-Lubavitch community are relocating to Brownsville, where homes average $610,000.

(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood is known as a center of gentrification and a gathering place for the cool young hipsters of New York City. A short walk ...

New York Attorney General Letitia James is accusing a Hudson Valley town and county of "a concerted, systematic effort" to keep Hasidic Jewish families from moving into the town, where a developer ...

CHESTER - Workers started building the first two homes in the 431-unit Greens at Chester development this week after the developers and town officials resolved some disputed issues, even as they ...

The very things that make the place I grew up in unique and beautiful may contribute to the spread of the coronavirus. By Frimet Goldberger Ms. Goldberger is a writer. My mother is a Hasidic woman ...

In the New York area, the epidemic has killed influential religious leaders and torn through large, tight-knit families. Neighborhoods in Brooklyn with large Hasidic populations have some of New York ...

Some of Brooklyn’s ultra-Orthodox leaders are demanding an end to ongoing prayer services, funeral processions, and other illicit gatherings in parts of the community, as COVID-19 continues to rip ...

The public outcry over measles in New York City is reaching a fever peach after Mayor Bill de Blasio declared a state of emergency in heavily ultra-Orthodox zip codes in Brooklyn on Tuesday, making ...

Feldman eventually left her marriage at age 23, only taking her son and garbage bags of clothes. Around this time, she lived with friends and consulted lawyers to maintain custody of her son. Her ...