In their new book, “A Fortress in Brooklyn: Race, Real Estate, and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburg” (Yale University Press), Nathaniel Deutsch and Michael Casper unpack the history of ...

“Rather than an Eastern European shtetl miraculously transported to Brooklyn, the Hasidic enclave in Williamsburg is a distinctly American creation, and its journey from the 1940s to the present ...

A health care administrator at a large Williamsburg clinic that serves mostly Hasidic patients said she had seen antibody positive results of around 40%. But that number rose to 75% if you looked ...

Section 8 provides the Hasidic community with rental subsidies, making it affordable to live in Williamsburg. While city-funded housing is still in limbo, market-rate housing is going up.

WILLIAMSBURG, Brooklyn (WABC) -- A 16-year-old has been charged for being part of a group that attacked a Hasidic man on the streets of Brooklyn.

WILLIAMSBURG, Brooklyn — Yitzchak Kaplan, ... a British scholar who married into Brooklyn’s Satmar Hasidic sect when she was 18, said a religious ceremony is something else.

Video shows man attacking 2 Hasidic boys in Brooklyn 01:38. NEW YORK-- Two young Hasidic boys were attacked without any warning in Brooklyn earlier this week, and the entire incident was caught on ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Frieda Vizel left an ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect in New York in a crisis of faith at 25. But instead of cutting ties, she became a successful online personality and guide to the ...

Unprecedented decision forces private Hasidic Jewish school to ... State education authorities have determined that Yeshiva Mesivta Arugath Habosem in Williamsburg, Brooklyn is violating state law ...

“Rather than an Eastern European shtetl miraculously transported to Brooklyn, the Hasidic enclave in Williamsburg is a distinctly American creation, and its journey from the 1940s to the present ...

In their new book, “A Fortress in Brooklyn: Race, Real Estate, and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburg” (Yale University Press), Nathaniel Deutsch and Michael Casper unpack the history of ...