A Jewish comedian’s planned production was also booted from space owned by the Catholic Church. A theatrical production based on the memoir of an ex-Hasidic transgender rabbi and activist, set to ...

(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.

Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Netflix/Amazon/Robby Hoffman “If I’m acting, I’m going to really be acting,” she says. There is a lot of Hoffman in both ...

(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 ...

When Keith Thomas, a clinical researcher-turned-novelist and filmmaker, was studying for his master’s degree in religious education at Hebrew Union College, he overheard an unsettling story that would ...

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.

"For me, to complain is to enjoy," the ex-Hasidic lesbian stand-up and Hacks guest star says of her hilarious set, which ...

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(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood is known as a center of gentrification and a gathering place for the cool young hipsters of New York City. A short walk from the ...

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. Credit... Supported by By Eliza ...

The New York Times is researching yeshivas in New York City, Kiryas Joel and Rockland County. Tell us about your experiences. A New York Times investigation found that scores of Hasidic Jewish schools ...

(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 ...