Ultra-Orthodox women in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, want to experience the joys of summer like everyone else. But that may not be possible this year, due to a lack of female lifeguards at the local ...

A concert at JCC Manhattan will celebrate “Kapelya,” the first recording of Hasidic nigunim performed exclusively by women. (JTA) — As a child growing up in the Chabad Hasidic community of Crown ...

BOROUGH PARK, Brooklyn (WABC) -- An all-women group of EMT's in Brooklyn are breaking a glass ceiling - but not the one you think. Dressed in purple and ready to save lives are the Hasidic Jewish ...

“When I left my husband so my kids and I could survive, the community left me.” Thus spoke a heartbroken Hasidic woman, who was rejected by her community when she fled her 16-year marriage to an ...

When I first decided to conduct my dissertation research on Hasidic women, I was hoping to learn something about how their spiritual lives fared in the face of everyday demands of running a home and ...

In early August, Bulletproof Stockings made headlines for performing the first women-only show at Arlene’s Grocery, a rock venue in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Dalia G. Shusterman and Perl Wolfe ...

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“Do you remember him?” Nechie Fischman’s friend asked her in November. It had been nearly a decade since the 30-year-old former Orthodox Jewish woman last saw the Brooklyn doctor. Still, she ...

(JTA) — As a child growing up in the Chabad hasidic community of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Chana Raskin was immersed in a male soundscape. Her father brought her with him to synagogue on Shabbat and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hasidic men and women walk through a Jewish Orthodox neighborhood in Brooklyn on April 24, 2017 in New York City. (Spencer ...