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 ...

Anthropologist Samuel Shuman and Yiddish linguist Chaya Nove recently conducted a unique sort of joint fieldwork: they attended the annual Hasidic pilgrimage to Hungary that brings thousands of people ...

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Roughly 3,000 Hasidic women leaders from around the world gathered at a gala on Sunday as part of the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Women Emissaries that takes place annually in ...

Amazon has also opened the door for many Hasidic women whose time is consumed taking care of their large families to become entrepreneurs. Zlata Bernstein runs a full-time business out of her Brooklyn ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. NEW YORK • A New York City municipal pool that maintains female-only hours so that Hasidic Jewish women can swim with no men ...