A federal lawsuit accuses Forestburgh officials of denying permits for a 2,600-home development to keep Hasidic families from moving there.

On Aug. 13, Lost Lake Holdings and Town of Forestburgh filed to have the remaining three claims dismissed. Treene hopes that ...

The suit follows Forestburgh's denial of several building permits for initial homes and a 10-month review of that decision by the town's Zoning Board of Appeals, which ultimately upheld it with a ...

A housing crunch in the New Jersey shore town Toms River, home to one of the nation’s largest Hasidic populations, has led to changes in door-to-door solicitation laws. Municipal leaders say ...

David Eckman, a Hasidic real estate investor, acknowledged that most of his visits to gauge people’s interest in selling their homes are unsolicited, but he said he has never tried to intimidate ...

"New York’s Hasidic Jewish religious schools have benefited from $1 billion in government funding in the last four years but are unaccountable to outside oversight," the Times report headlined ...

New York’s private Hasidic schools could face more oversight under new rules enacted by a state education panel. Jonah Markowitz for The New York Times By Brian M. Rosenthal and Eliza Shapiro ...

The shtiebel was more than a place for study and prayer. It was a second home, where men gathered morning and evening, forming a close-knit community marked by warmth and familiarity. Wealth and ...

Besides, Yiddish wasn’t the language of home for my classmates. I was a Jew but, for the long years I spent there, I was always an outsider, like a yovn in suke, someone who didn’t belong in ...

A pro-Palestinian group is set to stage a “louder’’-than-ever march in front of the Brooklyn Museum on Saturday — just down the road from the Jewish Hasidic Lubavitcher headquarters.

As many as 50,000 Jews traveled to a Hungarian town for the anniversary of a noted rabbi’s death, marking significant growth for the annual pilgrimage and generating what the town’s may… ...

Who’s Right in New York’s Controversy Over Yeshiva Education? ‘Though the Times implied otherwise, Hasidic Jews are contributing members of society.’ Sept. 16, 2022 10:52 am ET Share Resize ...