Authorities apprehended a 37-year-old man after he allegedly hit a teenager with his car and drove away in a Hasidic ...

Kiryas Joel, a village of over 20,000 Yiddish-speaking Jews, became the town of Palm Tree on Jan. 1 when it officially split from the Town of Monroe located in upstate Orange County, the Times ...

This is the question that stands at the heart of our new book “American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York,” which is soon to be released. In the book we ...

So why are the women taking a stand, and why is their strike so controversial? Women in Kiryas Joel, a village about an hour’s drive from New York, are refusing to have sex with their husbands ...