The author of “All Who Go Do Not Return” speaks with JTA about Hasidic culture, first transgressions and how a new generation of formerly haredi Orthodox Jews is defying stereotypes.

This practice, which may seem surprising or even controversial to those unfamiliar with Hasidic customs, is an important expression of faith and identity for the women who observe it. In this blog ...

On closer examination of the community, one is struck almost as strongly by aspects of Hasidic life that sharply differentiate it from mainstream American culture. One is a palpable tightness of ...

A LIFE APART aims to present many aspects of American Hasidic life on film, exploring underlying struggles such as tensions between modernity and traditionalism. We aim to convey the Hasidim's ...

Hasidic schools’ learning practices and culture, however, have not been studied at all. Education in these schools takes place in Yiddish and can be confusing even to those with familiarity with ...

Macphisto alter ego in the early ’90s. However, U2 guitarist The Edge recently gave the world a new outfit in which to imagine Bono: that of a Hasidic Jew. Bono seriously injured himself while ...