Hochul has made use of the pocket veto only two times before, both within roughly six months of taking office. At the start ...

New York state requires private schools to provide an education that is “substantially equivalent” to what public schools offer. Critics have long charged that many Orthodox schools fall well ...

One day into a three-day retreat for Orthodox Jews who identify as LGBTQ+, Zippy Spanjer looked around and liked what she saw ...

Thousands of members of ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities Sunday flooded lower Manhattan’s Foley Square to protest Israeli legislation that they believe would force yeshiva students to be ...

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One day into a three-day retreat for Orthodox Jews who identify as LGBTQ+, Zippy Spanjer looked around and liked what she saw. A 29-year-old from Rochester, New York, Spanjer was experiencing for ...