Long before cantors were household names in America, they were hidden treasures in the Hasidic heartlands of Europe. From its ...

Chavie Weisberger was raised in a Hasidic family — an ultra-orthodox Jewish sect — and “was groomed for the ultimate level of success, which was marriage,” she tells PEOPLE. But after she ...

The New York State Board of Regents is passing new rules meant to enforce the state’s “substantial equivalency” law, so that yeshivas must offer more robust coursework in subjects like math ...

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.

In this Sept. 20, 2013, file photo, children and adults cross a street in front of a school bus in Borough Park, a neighborhood in the Brooklyn borough of New York that is home to many ultra ...

Max was born in 1884 into a Hasidic family of bakers in Nowy Zmigrod, a small town now located in southeast Poland. At the age of 17, he emigrated to the United States and settled on the Lower ...