Williamsburg

Elections

January 20, 2025

“Looking for a change”: New York’s Haredi community looks ahead to the incoming Trump administration

Haredi New Yorkers hope Trump will bring safety, economic stability and stronger US-Israel relations.

Elections

November 8, 2024

Analyzing the Haredi Vote in the 2024 General Election

Getting into the details of how the Shtetl voted.

Williamsburg

September 18, 2024

Donald Trump expected to visit Hasidic restaurant in Williamsburg

Here’s what you should know about the Trump-Hasidic relationship.

Williamsburg

September 13, 2024

Hasidic yeshiva latest organization to get caught up in dispute over Williamsburg’s oldest Orthodox synagogue

A judge ruled that for now, Yeshiva Ohel Elozer cannot move into the Rodney Street building, which they leased from one of the synagogue's factions.

Williamsburg

July 24, 2024

Pilot program teaches Brooklyn public school kids about Satmar, other Haredi communities and customs

New curriculum teaches students about Satmar gender segregation, yeshivas, and kosher standards in effort to combat hate.

Williamsburg

July 2, 2024

Double sinks, stroller rooms: New affordable housing lottery launched for previously controversial development

The Broadway Triangle is a section of Brooklyn where Hasidic Williamsburg meets with historically Black Bed-Stuy and historically Latino Bushwick.

Williamsburg

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.

Williamsburg

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.

Borough Park

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.

Williamsburg

April 26, 2024

Politicians ask NYPD for more crossing guards in Hasidic Williamsburg after 10-year-old girl’s death

“Every child in our city needs a safe route home from school,” wrote Councilmember Lincoln Restler and other Brooklyn politicians.

Music

April 11, 2024

AUDIO FEATURE: Hasidic artists in Brooklyn bring the golden age of cantorial music into the digital age

A new book by Jeremiah Lockwood, a musician and Jewish Studies scholar, explores the world of young Hasidic cantorial artists, who have mastered the vocal techniques of the great cantors of a century ago

Israel

Shtetl Briefs

Brooklyn

Rockland

Kiryas Joel

Lakewood

Yeshivas

Haredi Life

Culture

Opinion

Williamsburg

January 20, 2025

“Looking for a change”: New York’s Haredi community looks ahead to the incoming Trump administration

Haredi New Yorkers hope Trump will bring safety, economic stability and stronger US-Israel relations.

November 8, 2024

Analyzing the Haredi Vote in the 2024 General Election

Getting into the details of how the Shtetl voted.

September 18, 2024

Donald Trump expected to visit Hasidic restaurant in Williamsburg

Here’s what you should know about the Trump-Hasidic relationship.

September 13, 2024

Hasidic yeshiva latest organization to get caught up in dispute over Williamsburg’s oldest Orthodox synagogue

A judge ruled that for now, Yeshiva Ohel Elozer cannot move into the Rodney Street building, which they leased from one of the synagogue's factions.

July 24, 2024

Pilot program teaches Brooklyn public school kids about Satmar, other Haredi communities and customs

New curriculum teaches students about Satmar gender segregation, yeshivas, and kosher standards in effort to combat hate.

July 2, 2024

Double sinks, stroller rooms: New affordable housing lottery launched for previously controversial development

The Broadway Triangle is a section of Brooklyn where Hasidic Williamsburg meets with historically Black Bed-Stuy and historically Latino Bushwick.

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 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.

April 26, 2024

Politicians ask NYPD for more crossing guards in Hasidic Williamsburg after 10-year-old girl’s death

“Every child in our city needs a safe route home from school,” wrote Councilmember Lincoln Restler and other Brooklyn politicians.

April 11, 2024

AUDIO FEATURE: Hasidic artists in Brooklyn bring the golden age of cantorial music into the digital age

A new book by Jeremiah Lockwood, a musician and Jewish Studies scholar, explores the world of young Hasidic cantorial artists, who have mastered the vocal techniques of the great cantors of a century ago

April 8, 2024

U.S. Haredi leadership find consensus in lamenting Israel’s yeshiva draft changes

Leading Satmar newspapers decried the change using dramatic headlines and heated rhetoric, while the Agudah called the new rules a “war on the Torah”