Ever since Williamsburg began to gentrify, there’s been a cultural clash between, as many a headline has put it, hipsters and ...

Kiryas Joel has few precedents in Diaspora history but is at home on the political and religious landscape of the United States, write David N. Myers and Nomi M. Stolzenberg.

And these were other Jews! At the same time, the Satmar [Hasidim] became very notorious for being profoundly anti-Zionist, at a time when Zionism was increasing in popularity among American Jews.

During the trial, the young woman suffered widespread condemnation as “a zona,” or whore, and threats from other Satmar Hasidim for daring to report her abuse to secular law enforcement ...

The Lubavitch are indeed sui generis within the Hasidic world. And in the 1980s when Satmar Hasidim accused the Lubavitcher Hasidim of proselytizing in Williamsburg–their home turf–these ...

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio came under an onslaught of criticism on Tuesday night when he tweeted his reaction to the overcrowded funeral procession for a rabbi from the Satmar Hasidic sect of ...

Hasidic activists accosted a man who disrupted a rally by Satmar Hasidim endorsing New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Bill Thompson, briefly detaining him inside a nearby Judaica store.

Thirty years ago, the Satmar Hasidim living in the upstate New York village of Kiryas Joel created their own school district matching the boundaries of their religious community in order merely to ...

WILLIAMSBURG, Brooklyn — A huge group of Satmar Hasidim packed into their Williamsburg synagogue Saturday night, with no masks or social distancing evident, to celebrate the arrival of a new ...

Viznitz leaders decided in 1990 to carve out their own village, just as Satmar had done in Kiryas Joel in Orange County and the Skver Hasidim had done in nearby New Square.

Rabbi Moses Teitelbaum, the worldwide spiritual leader of the Satmar Hasidim died at the age of 91 April 24 at Mount Sinai Hospital. (Photo by Stephen Chernin/Getty Images) ...

The NYPD said it let the event proceed without enforcement. Previously, the city slapped a $15,000 fine on another Satmar synagogue, which secretly planned a Nov. 8 wedding attended by thousands.