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 ...

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 ...

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(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 ...