(JTA) — Len Saxe, a researcher at Brandeis University, has been studying the impact of Birthright trips to Israel since the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hasidic Jewish men chat on Monday, June 16, 2025, in the Brooklyn borough of New York (AP) Frieda Vizel's path diverged from her ...

The ongoing US/Israel vs Iran war will go down in history as one landmark event that has re-educated the world about how the politics of identity can be used as a baton to beat history, religion and ...

Yeshiva University, the storied modern Orthodox Jewish university in New York, is in the midst of a legal battle over its refusal to recognize the YU Pride Alliance, an undergraduate club. While YU ...

A prominent pro-Israel activist slammed Orthodox Jewish leaders for going easy on Mayor Zohran Mamdani during a meeting ...

One Jewish leader declined to attend the session after learning the Muslim mayor would only be there for around 15 to 20 ...

Ziva Mann remembers how joyful and smiley her daughter was as a child — the family even gave her the nickname “Giggles.” “She was just sunshine,” Mann said. That changed around second grade, when her ...

As New York City moves to assume control of a financially distressed hospital that serves Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jewish ...

Tour participants walk past an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man during a tour by Frieda Vizel of the Hasidic section of Williamsburg in the Brooklyn borough of New York on Monday, June 16, 2025. (AP ...

Frieda Vizel left an ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect in New York in a crisis of faith at 25. But instead of cutting ties, she became a successful online personality and guide to the tight-knit world she ...