The urban sukkah: In NYC, they’re on rooftops, terraces, sidewalks and more
No backyard? No problem! City-dwellers build huts for Sukkot wherever they can
Hasidic Williamsburg
The Latest
-
Culture -
Politics Donald Trump’s Hasidic fans lament canceled Williamsburg campaign stop
The stop was scrapped after the owner of Gottlieb’s Restaurant died suddenly
-
Fast Forward Potential Trump visit to iconic Gottlieb’s deli has Hasidic world aflutter
Speculation that the former president will stop by was sparked by visits from the Secret Service
-
Culture I’m not Hasidic, but an afternoon in Williamsburg deepened my appreciation of Sukkot
A serendipitous visit to a fair during the holiday gave me a window into Hasidic life that challenged my preconceptions
-
Culture In Satmar Williamsburg, even the Legos wear yarmulkes
Frieda Vizel left the Satmar world at 25 — but she still visits twice a week to give tours of Hasidic Williamsburg
-
Culture Meet the husband and wife behind Williamsburg’s first Hasidic art gallery
Just off Flushing Avenue, a bustling thoroughfare in Hasidic Williamsburg, there’s a basement full of art. Chiaroscuro portraits of eminent rabbis. Scenes of Jerusalem’s Western Wall. Modernist sculptures of men kissing their tefillin, tender floral still lifes, a collection of old violins splatter-painted in exuberant colors. Housed in a lower-level ballroom in the Condor Hotel,…
-
News Williamsburg primary upset might indicate slipping power for Hasidic leaders
The victory of an activist over a long-serving state politician might signal that there’s more support, even in a devout Brooklyn district, for secular education in religious schools than suspected. Community organizer Emily Gallagher, 36, narrowly beat Assemblyman Joe Lentol, 77, by an estimated 400 to 600 votes in the Democratic primary in the 50th…
-
News Ultra-Orthodox children hold ‘Kid lives matter’ protest over summer camp closures
Hundreds of Haredi children in Brooklyn gathered in the early evening on Thursday to ask New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and to open sleepaway camps and parks. Videos and photos showed a crowd of children, mostly boys with sidecurls and kippot, walking and biking along Bedford Avenue,…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
News How Jewish can you be in a Boca country club? Wrapping tefillin got a family suspended, lawsuit says
- 2
News An Alabama millionaire offered Jews $50,000 to move to his town. 16 years later, what’s left?
- 3
Opinion Mike Huckabee’s stunning, terrifying new gift to the Israeli right
- 4
Opinion Trump is forcing liberal Zionists to confront an extraordinarily inconvenient truth
In Case You Missed It
-
News A groundbreaking agreement for LGBTQ Orthodox Jews collapsed after 50 days. What happened?
-
Fast Forward As US appears increasingly likely to enter Iran conflict, tensions roil MAGA movement
-
Opinion My brother-in-law’s kibbutz weathered Oct. 7. Then came the Iranian missile strikes
-
Opinion I thought the Dyke March should be open to Zionists. So my fellow New York organizers kicked me out
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
