Many among the secular, including me, grew up believing the sheitel, the ritual wig worn by married Orthodox and Hasidic ...

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Brooklyn Law School (BLS) has always been a forerunner of diversity, and on Wednesday night it celebrated that when the school honored the country’s first-ever Hasidic female elected official — Judge ...

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 ...