(JTA) — Large crowds gathered Monday afternoon for the funeral of a beloved Hasidic rabbi in Williamsburg, home to the Satmar Hasidic community in Brooklyn. Thousands gathered at the funeral ...

“I don’t think the government can do much, to be honest,” said Meyer Labin, a Hasidic writer who grew up in the Williamsburg Satmar community. Some critics say the lack of secular education ...

Hasidic shoppers in Williamsburg almost exclusively patronize mom-and-pop shops, the local ones along Lee Avenue and the adjacent streets that sell shoes and kosher poultry and Judaica and more.

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.

Rabinowitz, who also goes by Yadler, and Dushinsky, are members of Hasidic communities in Williamsburg, and frequently partner with other Hasidic developers, including Joel Gluck’s Spencer Equity, ...

Husband, a new Off-Broadway series of comedic monologues about women in failed relationships, features a scene about a ...

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 ...