After disavowing her strict religious upbringing, Abby Stein came out as transgender. She is now the subject of a new play by ...

In case you were wondering about Abby Stein’s preferred bagel order, it’s a sesame bagel with tuna, tomatoes and pickles. That has been her go-to since she was a kid growing up Hasidic in Williamsburg ...

That has been her go-to since she was a kid growing up Hasidic in Williamsburg. “At the end of the day, if you just ask me what I want, I will choose the food I grew up with,” said Stein when ...

In Williamsburg, home to the Satmar Hasidic community, mask wearing on the street is rare. “It’s striking seeing hundreds of people, families and individuals all not wearing masks.

Today there are twelve principal Hasidic courts, though many of the smaller ones still exist. Williamsburg, Brooklyn, was a community of Orthodox, but increasingly westernized, Jews from Germany ...

The Hasidic parts of Crown Heights, Williamsburg, and Boro Park are lively islands of traditional Jewishness in the midst of larger, racially diverse, working and middle class neighborhoods.

Teitelbaum, who is based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, is not the first Hasidic leader to test positive for the virus. His own brother and leader of a rival faction of the Satmar Hasidic community ...

Rabbi Moshe Landa of Williamsburg instructed his congregation to pray for President Donald Trump during Sabbath services, deviating from traditional political neutrality in the Hasidic community.

The spot is easily recognizable by its bright yellow saloon doors on South 6th Street, perched between Williamsburg’s hipster lofts and Hasidic Jewish enclave. After he had a new bicycle stolen ...