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 ...

(JTA) — As a child growing up in the Chabad hasidic community of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Chana Raskin was immersed in a male soundscape. Her father brought her with him to synagogue on Shabbat and ...

Brooklyn's all-female EMT corps comprised of ultra-Orthodox Jewish women is expanding its reach in the Big Apple – providing life support services despite opposition from their male counterparts. The ...

“When I left my husband so my kids and I could survive, the community left me.” Thus spoke a heartbroken Hasidic woman, who was rejected by her community when she fled her 16-year marriage to an ...

Newly inducted New York Supreme Court Justice Rachel Freier is breaking barriers, becoming the first Hasidic female judge to serve on the state’s highest court. Many came together in Downtown Brooklyn ...

Lindsay Tuchman has the story on the all-women EMT crew making a difference. BOROUGH PARK, Brooklyn (WABC) -- An all-women group of EMT's in Brooklyn are breaking a glass ceiling - but not the one you ...

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A concert at JCC Manhattan will celebrate “Kapelya,” the first recording of Hasidic nigunim performed exclusively by women. (JTA) — As a child growing up in the Chabad Hasidic community of Crown ...