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Rabbi Moshe Dov Ber Beck at a meeting in 2008 with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. (Screenshot from YouTube)

Leader of Neturei Karta, extremist anti-Zionist haredi Orthodox group, dies at 87

April 16, 2021
A Yeshiva University student wears a face mask on the grounds of the university in New York City, March 4, 2020.

Yeshiva University plans to eliminate in-person Hebrew courses indefinitely

April 15, 2021
A student bikes across campus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. (Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

University of Illinois to get a Jewish students’ dorm following spate of alleged anti-Semitic incidents

April 13, 2021
A student bikes across campus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. (Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

University of Illinois to get a Jewish students’ dorm following spate of alleged anti-Semitic incidents

April 13, 2021

Association of Jewish Studies president resigns over meeting with Steven Cohen

April 13, 2021
Andrew Cuemo

‘These people and their f***ing tree houses’: Andrew Cuomo chafed at campaigning on Sukkot

April 13, 2021
Israeli Minister of Education Yoav Galant at the annual Jerusalem Conference of the 'Besheva' group in Jerusalem, on March 15, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

He was selected to receive Israel’s highest honor. Then his political views drew criticism.

April 11, 2021
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin speaks during International Women's Day in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC on March 8, 2021. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

U.S. Defense Secretary lands in Israel, marking first cabinet visit by Biden administration

April 11, 2021
Andrew Yang

Andrew Yang made a pre-Shabbat visit to Orthodox Brooklyn while filming campaign ad

April 11, 2021

Supreme Court lifts California restrictions on at-home religious gatherings

April 11, 2021

Brandeis president signs 5-year contract renewal after dispute with university’s board

April 9, 2021

Inspired by the pandemic, Jewish musicians are rolling out a year’s worth of spiritual ‘healing songs’

April 9, 2021
Eliot Resnick

Editor of Orthodox newspaper the Jewish Press was one of the Jan. 6 Capitol rioters

April 8, 2021

Orthodox Jewish couple accuses New York City housing authorities of religious discrimination

April 7, 2021
A rose is placed on the Holocaust Memorial on the International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, 2021 in Berlin, Germany. (Maja Hitij/Getty Images)

New ritual aims to bridge Holocaust remembrance to a post-survivor world

April 6, 2021
Yale to offer beginner Yiddish courses to fulfill language requirements

Yale to offer beginner Yiddish courses to fulfill language requirements

April 6, 2021
David Teyf

This chef, born next to a matzah factory, is delivering meals to Holocaust survivors

April 5, 2021

Orthodox Jewish couple and baby visiting New York City slashed in ‘possible bias incident’

April 1, 2021

Leader of extremist haredi Orthodox sect Lev Tahor arrested in Guatemala

March 30, 2021
NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 9: Pedestrians walk near the Yeshiva Kehilath Yakov School in the South Williamsburg neighborhood, April 9, 2019 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. New York City has ordered all yeshivas in a heavily Orthodox Jewish section of Brooklyn to exclude from classes all students who aren't vaccinated against measles or face fines or possible closure. The order comes amid a recent outbreak of over 285 measles cases in Brooklyn and Queens, most of which have been concentrated in the Orthodox Jewish communities. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

A Brooklyn Hasidic rabbi is under investigation for promoting child marriage

March 26, 2021
Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson: “Zoom seder gives the ability to mute the table’s inevitable kvetch”

March 26, 2021
A handout picture released by the Suez Canal Authority on March 24, 2021 shows a part of the Taiwan-owned MV Ever Given (Evergreen), a 400-meter-long and 59-meter wide vessel, lodged sideways and impeding all traffic across the waterway of Egypt's Suez Canal. (Suez Canal Authority/Handout/AFP via Getty Images)

10 of the best Jewish tweets about the pre-Passover Suez Canal blockage

March 25, 2021

Over 500 rabbis condemn attempt to ‘rehabilitate’ sociologist accused of sexual misconduct

March 25, 2021

Oversight of Orthodox yeshivas becomes a major issue in New York City’s mayoral race

March 25, 2021
Kindergartners at the Moriah School in Englewood, New Jersey, one of seven Bergen County schools to urge families to abide by school guidelines outside of school in September 2020. (Courtesy of the Moriah School)

He convened an early effort to shut down Jewish life. Now this Orthodox rabbi is back at synagogue and school.

March 22, 2021
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia in Washington, Jan. 4, 2021. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images; JTA Montage)

Marjorie Taylor Greene makes her case against immigration in Orthodox magazine

March 18, 2021
NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 12: U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks at a United Nations (UN) Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East where the ongoing conflict in Syria was discussed on April 12, 2017 in New York City. It is expected that the Security Council will vote later on Wednesday on a draft resolution demanding that theÊSyrian government cooperate with an investigation of the suspected chemical attack last week. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Should Nikki Haley get her photo in the paper? For Orthodox magazines, it’s a question.

March 18, 2021
Inside empty temple

Synagogues are not rushing to reopen, even as vaccines are making gatherings safer

March 16, 2021

Brandeis president says university’s contract proposal aims to force him out

March 16, 2021
Marjorie Taylor Greene at a news conference in Dallas, Ga., Oct. 15, 2020. (Dustin Chambers/Getty Images)

Marjorie Taylor Greene visited Orthodox Brooklyn at invitation of the fur-wearing Capitol rioter’s brother

March 16, 2021
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Brooklyn rabbi who fled to Israel to escape sexual assault charges in 2010 extradited to US

March 12, 2021

Thousands of Orthodox Jews participated in a COVID-19 study last year. The first results are in now.

March 10, 2021
Rep. Nita Lowey in the Capitol, Oct. 16, 2019. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Nita Lowey says Andrew Cuomo should remain as NY governor amid sexual harassment investigation

March 10, 2021
AUSTIN, TX - MARCH 03: A Covid-19 restriction signs hang outside of H-E-B supermarket on March 3, 2021 in Austin, Texas. The popular Texas supermarket chain will not require customers to wear masks when the statewide mask mandate ends on March 10, 2021. (Photo by Montinique Monroe/Getty Images)

One Dallas kosher grocer removed the mask requirement. Then came the backlash.

March 9, 2021

Hundreds of men pack into Brooklyn study hall and street for Hasidic rabbi’s funeral

March 7, 2021
People eat at the Hamotzi restaurant in Jerusalem, on March 7, 2021, after Israel reopened restaurants, bars and cafes to those who have been vaccinated. (Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty Images) 

With 41% of the country fully vaccinated, Israel begins reopening

March 7, 2021

‘It isn’t Jewish’: Israel’s Sephardic chief rabbi denigrates Reform conversions

March 7, 2021
A woman wears a mask while shopping for Passover items at a grocery store in Overland Park, Kan., April 7, 2020. (Jamie Squire/Getty Images)

Vaccinations and tests enable some families to gather for Passover Seders this year

March 5, 2021

Brooklyn Orthodox patrol founder arrested on sexual misconduct charges

March 4, 2021
Deb Perelman demonstrates a recipe at an event in New York City, Jan. 25, 2018. (Donald Bowers/Getty Images for Ford Motor Company)

Deb Perelman is struggling with her hamantaschen

February 23, 2021

Overnight camps can open this year, NY governor announces

February 17, 2021

1 in 73 haredi Orthodox Israelis over age 65 has died of COVID, Israeli report finds

February 10, 2021

Federal court blocks NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s capacity limits on houses of worship

February 9, 2021
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - APRIL 10: People walk through an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Williamsburg on April 10, 2019 in New York City. As a measles epidemic continues to spread, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio recently announced a state of emergency and mandated residents of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Williamsburg at the center of the outbreak to get vaccinated for the viral disease. Those who choose not to will risk a $1,000 fine. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Misinformation is making Orthodox women afraid to take the COVID vaccine

February 7, 2021
Israelis wait to recieve a Covid-19 vaccine, at a vaccination center operated by the Tel Aviv Municipality with Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center (Ichilov), at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, December 31, 2020. Photo by Miriam ALster/Flash90

Anti-vaxxer rabbi fired by synagogue over social media posts

February 3, 2021

A year of loss: Orthodox Jewry reels as rabbis die during COVID-19 pandemic

February 2, 2021
Students at the Leffell School in Westchester County, which emerged as an early epicenter for the coronavirus last spring in New York state, celebrated Purim from home in 2020. (Courtesy of Yael Buechler)

‘We’ve lost almost an entire year’: COVID-fatigued communities prepare for a distanced Purim

February 1, 2021
Thousands attended the funeral of Rabbi Dovid Soloveitchik, scion of a major rabbinic dynasty, in Jerusalem Sunday morning. (Screenshot from Twitter)

Thousands fill Jerusalem streets for funerals of major haredi Orthodox rabbis

January 31, 2021
Eretz Nehederet, an Israeli satire show, aired a sketch Wednesday portraying Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, a top haredi leader in Israel, as controlling the Israeli government's lockdown enforcement. (Screenshot from Channel 12)

Israeli TV show’s COVID-19 parody: Chaim Kanievsky, top haredi rabbi, is really running the country

January 29, 2021

Conservative Jewish leaders condemn Israel’s rejection of Ugandan Jews from immigrating

January 27, 2021
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