Brooklyn

Brooklyn’s Hasidic Jews are acting like they have herd immunity. Could they be right?

“That’s the feeling, that they’ve had it, everybody they know has had it,” said a Williamsburg health administrator.

By Shira Hanau July 8, 2020 4:00 pm

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Orthodox Jews take their protest, this time over fireworks, to NYC mayor’s home

The protest was the latest episode in an ongoing confrontation between the city’s Orthodox Jewish communities and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.

June 23, 2020 9:58 am

After 3 months and 5 days, the synagogue at Chabad headquarters reopens to unmasked crowds

None of the dozens of men in a video of the service appeared to be wearing a mask and most did not appear to maintain social distancing.

June 22, 2020 8:14 pm

NYC playgrounds will open next week, ending protests by Orthodox Jews who have demanded access

By Shira Hanau June 18, 2020 3:58 pm

Some New York City yeshivas are operating in the shadows

By Shira Hanau June 17, 2020 10:33 am

A NYPD car on the Brooklyn Bridge. (Wikimedia Commons)

Brooklyn rabbi arrested after police find 3 of his children walking to the store alone

By Marcy Oster May 12, 2020 11:59 am

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has a long relationship with the city’s Orthodox community

By Shira Hanau May 4, 2020 4:44 pm

New York City police break up another Orthodox funeral as crowds gather

By Shira Hanau April 30, 2020 9:00 pm

The haredi Orthodox community has always shunned ‘mosers,’ or informers. Coronavirus is just the latest example.

By Shira Hanau April 23, 2020 11:51 am

Hasidim, government officials and police officers stand in front of the K'hal Adas Greenville synagogue next door to JC Kosher Supermarket in Jersey City, the site of a deadly shooting, Dec. 11, 2019. (Laura E. Adkins/JTA)

Ideas

I treat epidemics, including community violence. Here’s my advice for containing the spread of anti-Semitism.

By Gary Slutkin January 31, 2020 1:17 pm

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