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 ...

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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 ...

This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. In the final countdown before the election, Ruchie Freier was still uncertain whether she would win the race for Civil Court Judge. But win ...

Brooklyn’s all-female EMT corps comprised of ultra-Orthodox Jewish women is expanding its reach in the Big Apple – providing life support services despite opposition from their male counterparts. The ...

“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 ...

“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 ...

Meet Bulletproof Stockings, New York's premier (and likely only) all-female Hasidic rock band. You won't find any male groupies at their shows because that is strictly forbidden by their religion. You ...

LOWER EAST SIDE (WABC) -- Its two worlds some assume could never collide; Hasidic women and rock and roll music. Fans of Bulletproof Stockings jammed at Arlene's Grocery on the Lower East Side ...