A Shtetl Guide to This Year’s New York City Council Races

What Does Shtetl Mean?

How Haredi Priorities Get Heard in Albany

Satmar grand rabbi heard bragging about deceiving state lawmakers on education bill

It’s participatory budgeting season. Here’s how to make your voice heard.

New York State halts polio immunization ad campaign over antisemitism concerns

Williamsburg fliers push stores to remove non-Jewish women cashiers

Agudah to the Pulitzers: No award for NYTimes Hasidic yeshiva stories

Chabad rabbis ban yoatzot – saying only men can rule on matters related to menstruation

Skver bans followers from using artificial intelligence

Nonprofit apologizes after calling photos in woman’s cookbook inappropriate

In speech, Mayor Eric Adams says public schools should "duplicate" yeshiva achievements

Yeshivas may soon need to fingerprint employees

New Belz organization helps people who leave the community

DeSantis criminal justice reform position could repel Haredi voters

Sababa Music Festival brings religious and formerly religious Jews together

Monsey ad announces new committee to tighten rules on boys’ clothing

In Rockland County, two children injured in car collisions two days apart

Tensions rise in Rockland after kosher supervisors plead guilty to a fatal fire, avoid prison time

Ad campaign suggests judicial candidate would side with Haredi-practicing parents over ex-spouses

Child abuse cases would be decided in favor of Haredi parents if family court judicial candidate wins, ads suggest

Four Primary-Day Takeaways for New York’s Haredi communities

“Canada is burning” over regulation of Haredi education, warn Yiddish posters

What’s in the investigations of 18 Haredi schools found to be providing inadequate secular education

Two more reps of Orthodox organizations will join Mayor’s Jewish Advisory Council

Report: in a first for Israeli Haredim, Belz implements sexual abuse awareness for boys

Roundup: Trump speaks to frum gathering; Chabad stabbing; and more Haredi news this week

NYC redacted the names of 14 failing Yeshivas. Shtetl has the list.

The three "unlucky" weeks

His sentence commuted by Trump after pleas from rabbis, Eli Weinstein is arrested on new charges

Roundup: Shomrim leader pleads guilty, Lakewood rabbi’s double life, and more Haredi news this week

‘The cure before the plague’: Haredi leaders suggest enforcement against failing yeshivas won’t happen

Sam Jacobs is building an e-commerce army

Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries' sit-down with Satmar Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum

Dov Hikind's party switch reflects a shift in party allegiance amongst the people he represented for 36 years

Is "the freezer" broken? Some blame it for the "Shidduch crisis"

Roundup: Yeshiva funding in New Jersey state budget, RFK Jr. Visits Ohel, kosher meat prices headed higher, and other Haredi news

Hasidic comedian interviews convicted child sex offender, receives polarized response

New York State Education Department releases guidelines on private school regulations

The yeshivish satire of ‘Rabbi Greenspan’

Haredi artists join multifaith exhibition

What you need to know about the new state guidelines affecting Haredi schools

Roundup: Mayor's advisory panel meeting at ADL, Agudah statement on Israel judicial reform, Haredi NYPD valedictorian, and more

Haredi leaders, activists react to former Shomrim leader’s guilty plea in child sex abuse case

‘This is a secular nation,’ Catskills villagers say, fighting Hasidic involvement in small town governance

Defamation case against agunah dismissed

New proposed village would give Vizhnitz community its own local government

Roundup: Schumer and Jeffries in Boro Park, Hasidic woman judge, and more

Potential Kiryas Joel housing development for those “behaving appropriately,” announcement says

The Be’er Sheva of New York hangs in the balance

Ruchie Freier becomes first Hasidic woman nominated to New York State Supreme Court

Enrollment has boomed in New York Haredi schools – especially Hasidic ones, report finds

Roundup: Rachmistrivka rabbi’s death, Crown Heights festival, growth in Kiryas Joel, and more Haredi news this week

“Monumental” health conference organized by Yetev Lev D'Satmar draws large crowd in Williamsburg

Police, prosecutors point to each other in dropping criminal charge against driver in fatal car crash

Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum gives Jewish names to neighborhoods surrounding Kiryas Joel

Plea deal offered in case of fatal crash involving Skverer rabbi

Roundup: Judge Ruchie Freier faces criticism; South Williamsburg fire; NY AG ends investigation of ally; and more Haredi news this week

Monsey man invents filter for Tesla browser, but it requires tampering with the hardware too

Department of Transportation to add Citi Bike docks to heavily Hasidic South Williamsburg

Deadline extended for first step in private school enforcement measures

Roundup: New funding for Hatzalah, Brooklyn ice cream chain recalls products, politicians meet with Haredi leaders, and more Haredi news

‘Your son is not accepted’: Yiddish rap song explores struggles faced by students rejected from Haredi schools

Yeshiva leaders mandate immunization after state penalized them for noncompliance

This Haredi organization is cheering a court ruling in favor of a Catholic school

Hasidic grocery store implements gender segregation at check-out

Roundup: Chabad woman becomes a yoetzet, New Jersey court sides with agunah, and other Haredi news this week

Will the Belzer Rabbi's education reform in Israel have an effect on schools in New York?

Vizhnitz one step closer to incorporating village in Catskills

Footsteps cuts ties with Freidom, citing “lack of safety”

Agudath Israel raises $10 million in 48 hours

New York City Council members push for private school vouchers

Roundups: New York City Council considers antisemitism legislation, Orthodox leaders meet with Ron DeSantis, and other Haredi news this week

Director of NJ Agudah offices to run for state assembly seat

UJA-Federation of New York to fund Shomrim, controversial Haredi safety patrols

Popular Hasidic women’s magazine publishes racist jokes

Roundup: AG James intervenes on behalf of Hasidic synagogues, Activist Beatrice Weber’s son is without a school, and other Haredi news this week

Hasidic boys’ school warns parents that collarless shirts invite predators

Is the price right? Grassroots campaign calls for price transparency at Haredi grocery stores

Uproar in Rockland Hasidic community amid claims of inappropriate behavior in local taxis

Survey: Ninety percent of Haredim plan to vote Republican in 2024

What it takes to attend a Haredi school: 11 rules families must follow in the new school year

Petition by Haredi group to form Seven Springs village is rejected

Roundup: Congressional candidate deletes tweet, alleged Sukkot violence in Crown Heights, and more

How Haredim learned about the attacks in Israel during the holidays without access to technology

Here’s what Haredi leaders in New York are saying about the attacks in Israel

After Hamas attacks, much of Haredi media emphasizes victims’ irreligiosity

Q&A: Founder of Shmira Public Safety assesses the impact of the Israel crisis on New York’s Haredi community

Process of improving secular education in Haredi yeshivas falls behind schedule

Roundup: City Council member arrested, lawmakers work to bring New Yorkers home from Israel, and other Haredi news

Mayor Eric Adams brushes off yeshiva critics at South Williamsburg event

Kiryas Joel health center faced cyberattack, forced to pay ransom

State attorney general appeals ruling previously celebrated by Haredi leaders

Roundup: Brooklyn rabbi sentenced, village of Airmont settled discrimination lawsuit, and more Haredi news this week

New rules for Ramapo taxis and car services amid swirling allegations of driver misconduct

Former Bobov yeshiva student sues school, alleging failure to address abuse

Monsey rabbis launch firefighting organization after local fire department rejects rabbinic oversight

Roundup: Early voting begins, corporal punishment ban, and other Haredi news this week

Why Haredi leaders ran a massive campaign for a family court judge in Rockland County

Haredi leaders launch last-minute campaign to head off challenger in Rockland DA race