Anthropologist Samuel Shuman and Yiddish linguist Chaya Nove recently conducted a unique sort of joint fieldwork: they ...

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Ultra-Orthodox women in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, want to experience the joys of summer like everyone else. But that may not be possible this year, due to a lack of female lifeguards at the local ...

Rachel “Ruchie” Freier, an attorney, grassroots community organizer, and member of the ultra-Orthodox Hasidic Jewish community, started her work as a civil court judge in Brooklyn on Tuesday. She is ...

A visitor at Shtetl Gallery, a new Hasidic art gallery in Williamsburg, New York (all images by the author for Hyperallergic) A new art gallery opened in New York City last week in an uncommon ...

LOWER EAST SIDE (WABC) -- Its two worlds some assume could never collide; Hasidic women and rock and roll music. Fans of Bulletproof Stockings jammed at Arlene's Grocery on the Lower East Side ...