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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Netflix/Amazon/Robby Hoffman “If I’m acting, I’m ...

A lawsuit brought by a Canadian ex-Hasidic couple who testified in court that they suffered years of underemployment after receiving a substandard secular education in suburban Montreal Hasidic ...

(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 ...

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.

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.

While most hip-hoppers’ touring contracts include the artists’ preferred brand of high-end liquor, rapper Moshe Reuven’s list calls for rabbi-sanctioned dairy products. “And kosher nutritious meals,” ...

A vibrant and polyphonic set of Hasidic confrontations with the modern world Hasidism has attracted, repelled and bewildered philosophers, historians and theologians since its inception in the 18th ...

(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 ...