Sukkot, a week-long Jewish holiday celebrating the traditional gathering of the harvest, is getting underway.

Ziva Mann has been navigating the challenges of raising a transgender child within an Orthodox Jewish community.

A New York City woman says she feared for her life as she was chased, kicked and pelted with objects by a mob of men who mistook her as a participant in a protest against Israel’s far-right security minister.

An Orthodox Jewish passenger says a United Airlines pilot forcibly removed him from an airplane bathroom while he was experiencing constipation.

A first-ever theater show to explore the lives of Asian American Jews tells 14 stories of people ranging in age from 12 to 75.

French authorities are searching for an assailant who attacked a man near a synagogue in Paris.

Germany’s biggest Jewish educational and cultural complex since the Holocaust is set to open in Berlin, five years after the groundbreaking.

One of Israel’s most extremist politicians, known for his inflammatory anti-Arab speeches and stunts, is attracting new supporters from a previously untapped demographic.

Dozens of Holocaust survivors attended a live concert at an Orthodox Jewish school in Brooklyn in the first large gathering for New York-area survivors after months of being isolated during the coronavirus pandemic.

An Orthodox Jewish congregation has filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Houston in hopes of preventing the city from enforcing a deed restriction that could put an end to services at the congregation’s current location.

Three sisters — Dassi Erlich, Nicole Meyer and Elly Sapper — have accused Leifer of abusing them while they were students at a Melbourne ultra-Orthodox school. But now, 12 long years after she fled Australia, Leifer is on her way back to face her accusers in court,” he said in a statement. Israel has extradition treaties with Europe and nine other countries, including the U.S. and Australia, and routinely extradites citizens accused of serious crimes. Leifer’s lawyers have said they will request she serve any prison sentence in Israel, in line with Israeli law. Malka Leifer’s victims will finally earn an act of justice.”

“He served as a bridge in a broader sense,″ said Chaya Spitz, a protege of Pinter's and CEO of an umbrella organization for Orthodox Jewish charities. For instance, students aren’t taught about human reproduction because the Orthodox community believes the topic is one best handled at home. While some in his Jewish community considered him a dangerous modernist, many in the broader society saw him as a crazy extremist, Cohen said. After seeing the situation for himself, Pinter went back to London and raised 5,000 pounds ($6,500) for the migrants. “When he died I thought, ‘That’s Rabbi Pinter, at least he could look at his wife and say that he did his homework,’″ Glasman said.

ALBANY, N.Y. – A federal judge refused Friday to block New York’s plan to temporarily limit the size of religious gatherings in COVID-19 hot spots. U.S. District Judge Judge Kiyo Matsumoto issued the ruling after an emergency hearing in a lawsuit brought by rabbis and synagogues, arguing the restrictions were unconstitutional. The restrictions apply in six designated areas in parts of New York City, Rockland and Orange counties, and part of Binghamton. In their lawsuit, rabbis, leaders of synagogues and the national Orthodox Jewish group Agudath Israel had argued that Gov. Authorities didn’t confirm there would be an arrest, saying only they were still investigating the confrontation involving Jacob Kornbluh, a reporter for Jewish Insider who has documented the handling of the coronavirus outbreak in Orthodox Jewish communities.

Members of the Orthodox Jewish community speak with NYPD officers on a street corner, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020, in the Borough Park neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York. Many neighborhoods that stand to be affected are home to large enclaves of Orthodox Jews. New restrictions in places where coronavirus cases are rising, including several Orthodox areas, led to street protests Tuesday night. Friedman said he hoped the government would understand that Orthodox Jews are not “gathering careless of the pandemic,” but rather returning to cherished customs of communal prayer, celebration and mourning. The Agudath Israel-led lawsuit says the state's new limits “make it impossible for Orthodox Jews to comply with both their religious obligations and the order” imposing restrictions.

Members of the Orthodox Jewish community wait for school busses to collect them in the Borough Park neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020. All nonessential businesses in areas designated “red zones” in parts of Queens and Brooklyn by Gov. Parents at one Brooklyn school protested that their school had been shut by the city even though it lay outside the area the governor had designated for school closures. In Borough Park, hundreds of men took to the streets Wednesday to protest restrictions for a second night. Overall, the coronavirus has been spreading at a slower rate in New York City than in much of the rest of the country.