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May 31, 2024

Arrest made in attempted ramming attack on Hasidic yeshiva students

Asghar Ali charged with attempted murder as a hate crime and yelling antisemitic slurs.

May 31, 2024

Rockland Haredi girls' school, haven for nonconformists and misfits, shutters suddenly

“Girls were crying. It was a chaos,” one parent said.

May 30, 2024

Chabad women push leaders for a vote in Sunday’s Crown Heights JCC election

“All women should be enfranchised in this election,” says activist Miriam Levy-Haim.

May 28, 2024

Pro-Israel, anti-Israel Haredi protesters clash outside Monsey synagogue

Videos from the news outlet show the protesters, including young boys, yelling at each other.

May 26, 2024

Heimish psychedelics: a quiet revolution

Haredi interest in psychedelics is no longer relegated to renegade Hasidim.

May 24, 2024

Lag Ba’Omer will be different this year

Most Haredim who usually travel to Israel will celebrate Lag Ba’Omer in New York as Israel cancels Meron.

May 22, 2024

Congressman Mike Lawler to deliver Touro commencement address, get honorary doctorate

Touro praised the congressman's stances on education and Israel.

May 21, 2024

New Williamsburg public school program seeks to combat antisemitism, other prejudice

Students will learn “the histories of Puerto Rican and Dominican and African American and Satmar migration” to the area.

May 20, 2024

NYC Mayor's Hasidic senior advisor Joel Eisdorfer eyes lobbying job

“What they’re doing is cashing in on their access to the mayor and City Hall,” one activist told the New York Daily News.

May 19, 2024

Tznius or parnasa? Businesses buy ads showing male workers, but no women

In professions that work on commission, activists say excluding women’s pictures is particularly harmful

May 17, 2024

Police investigating assault on Hasidic boys in Williamsburg

A man appeared to punch and kick two boys who were playing on the sidewalk.

May 15, 2024

In Borough Park, Jewish children outnumber adults, and other takeaways from latest UJA study

UJA excluded “offensive” questions to boost Haredi participation.