Nine members of a New York Hasidic Jewish community were arrested after a brawl at Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters in Brooklyn. The men were arrested for blocking efforts to close a tunnel found ...

A Brooklyn judge on Monday berated a rebellious crew of Hasidic Jewish students charged with digging a secret tunnel under a prominent Crown Heights synagogue — even as four defiantly demanded a ...

Women in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community near New York are taking an unusual approach to getting their voices heard: they’re going on a sex strike. More than 800 Hasidic women have refused to ...

The tunnels in question are located in Brooklyn, New York, and were allegedly built for members of Chabad (a Hasidic Jewish sect). One shocking discovery by a user on X (formerly Twitter ...

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Four of the defendants — Yaakov Rothchild, Yisroel Binyamin, Yerachmiel Blumenfeld and Menachem Maidanchik — declined the plea deal offered by the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office. They are ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Four men accused of damaging ... tunnel at the global headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement of Hasidic Judaism are set to stand trial after turning down a plea deal ...

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