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YouTuber Drew Binsky makes a travel video about Hasidic Brooklyn

The video, in which Binsky is accompanied by ex-Hasidic community member and transgender activist Abby Stein, has been viewed nearly 800,000 times in four days.

By Julia Gergely March 17, 2023 3:20 pm

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Satmar Grand Rebbe visits convicted sexual abuser Nechemya Weberman in prison

A Yiddish-language newspaper serving the Satmar Hasidic community also published a series of favorable articles about the former therapist, who was convicted of sexually abusing an adolescent girl.

December 15, 2022 5:43 pm

Ex-Hasid who advised ‘Unorthodox’ comes out as trans while translating children’s sexuality guide into Yiddish

“When I first started translating it, I didn’t identify as trans,” Lili Rosen said. She added, “I could no longer hide from the truth.”

January 26, 2022 8:30 am

In Brooklyn’s hipster Williamsburg neighborhood, Hasidic Jews are the real counterculture

By Shira Hanau June 9, 2021 10:34 am

New York governor moves to close yeshivas – and possibly synagogues

By Shira Hanau October 5, 2020 2:03 pm

COVID is spreading again in Orthodox communities. Why are people still not wearing masks?

By Shira Hanau September 24, 2020 3:12 pm

Shulem

Trump administration drafts Hasidic singer Shulem Lemmer to bring awareness to COVID crisis in Orthodox communities

By Shira Hanau September 24, 2020 11:12 am

Brooklyn synagogue and Orthodox ambulance corps warn of new COVID cases amid rising fear of a second wave

By Shira Hanau August 25, 2020 12:38 pm

New COVID-19 cases in Orthodox communities elicit concern as school year and High Holidays near

By Shira Hanau August 19, 2020 3:33 pm

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Why I (almost) miss being a Hasidic Jew

By Yitz Jordan July 8, 2020 6:04 pm

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