A theatrical production based on the memoir of an ex-Hasidic transgender rabbi and activist, set to premiere in New York early next year, is scrambling to find a new home after its landlord rejected ...

(New York Jewish Week) — As a Hasidic mom raising a family in Houston, Leah Lax had seven children ages 9 and under — including an infant, and a toddler with health issues, born just 11 months apart.

Like many local front-line workers right now, EMT Goldy Landau is working overtime — as many as 80 hours per week. Unlike most, however, the 28-year-old grew up well outside the mainstream: in Kiryas ...

(JTA) — Abby Stein remembers two things well about her first-ever editorial photo shoot after coming out as an ex-Orthodox trans woman. The first was that the shoot, in her bedroom for Vogue magazine ...

The couple claim they received virtually no secular education during their youth and it had a negative impact on their lives. Clara Wasserstein and Yochonon Lowen arrive at the Montreal courthouse ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Collage of ex-Hasidic reggae singer Matisyahu at home in Piermont, NY holding a microphone and candles, photo by Michael Falco.

When Keith Thomas, a clinical researcher-turned-novelist and filmmaker, was studying for his master’s degree in religious education at Hebrew Union College, he overheard an unsettling story that would ...

A Hasid once told me about going to the rebbe of a large sect to ask permission to attend graduate school. The rebbe not only gave his blessing; he said more people from the community should go too.

NYPD surveillance footage shows a man, dressed as a Hasidic Jew, shooting Jermain Dixon. Dixon was a "reformed gangster" who had recently been released after serving 19 years in jail. Detectives are ...

(New York Jewish Week) — A Jewish comedian’s planned production was also booted from space owned by the Catholic Church. The landlord? The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York. The production has ...