An online course about the vibrant world of Hasidic creativity begins this Wednesday, Feb. 26 at the Workers Circle. It will be taught by the Yiddish activist Eli Benedict, who hails from a Hasidi ...

The decision is the first time that the State Department of Education has withheld money from private Hasidic schools for not teaching sufficient math and English skills. By Eliza Shapiro and Brian M.

I imagined he’d want some dish he loves or a good challah. He replied, ‘You know what I want most of all? A kippah and a Kiddush cup.’” ...

The film, called Kerl fun sofek in Yiddish, is set in an 18th-century Polish shtetl during the beginnings of the Hasidic movement. Hadassah (Elizabeth Connick), a young woman in late pregnancy ...

A well known Lubavitch author, Rabbi Chaim Dalfin, wrote a fascinating book, also containing many informative footnotes, about the relationship between the famous Rosh Yeshiva Rav Yitzchok Hutner ...

perhaps because I was the only one in the group wearing a kippah, and handed me a card. He requested that I read “The Tree Planter’s Prayer for Planting Trees in Israel.” I agreed and stood ...

Tu B’Shvat is an all year long celebration when you’re working farmland, as Hasidic Jew Yisroel Bass does at the Yiddish Farm in Upstate New York. The farm was founded in order to “expand the role of ...