Leaders in the ultra-Orthodox community have, over the years, discovered the power they wield through coordinating a “bloc vote.” Politicians were quick to pick up on it, and in each election, a ...

MOSCOW – Ever since the remains of the last czar, Nicholas II, and most of his family were exhumed 25 years ago from a dirt road in the Urals, investigators, historians and surviving members of the ...

Faigy Mayer — a 30-year-old aspiring tech entrepreneur who fatally leaped from a New York rooftop bar — was given an Orthodox Jewish funeral Tuesday from her family’s Hasidic community, even as ...

JERUSALEM — Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Israelis on Sunday thronged the funeral of a prominent rabbi in Jerusalem, flouting the country’s ban on large public gatherings during the pandemic. The ...

Coronavirus czar Nachman Ash on Tuesday warned the ultra-Orthodox community that large crowds such as those recently seen at a handful of funerals for top rabbis who died of COVID-19 — would further ...

JERUSALEM — Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Israelis thronged a pair of funerals for two prominent rabbis in Jerusalem on Sunday, flouting the country’s ban on large public gatherings during the pandemic.

New York police on Thursday night shut down another large Orthodox Jewish funeral, just days after Mayor Bill de Blasio drew widespread criticism for his handling of previous clashes between the ...

Funeral for 17-year-old Maria Niotis at St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church in Union, NJ on Friday, October 3, 2025Get Photo Funeral for 17-year-old Maria Niotis at St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church ...

Bill de Blasio was accused of unfairly singling out the Jewish community in his response to a funeral that drew hundreds of Orthodox Jews into the streets of Brooklyn. (JTA) – New York City Mayor Bill ...

Mayor Bill de Blasio said a Hasidic rabbi's funeral that drew thousands of mourners in Brooklyn "was absolutely unacceptable." De Blasio and NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea said they are done warning ...