Unfair treatment from city and state officials is no excuse for rabbis and activists to spread division and misinformation about a deadly virus

Religious Jews are about to celebrate Simchat Torah, one of the calendar’s most joyous holidays, typically filled with singing and dancing. It’s a virus spike waiting to happen, unless the city reconsiders its broken approach and charts a new course with the community. Here’s how.

Grandstanding politicians and densely packed devout communities do a dance of mutual incomprehension, Sukkot festivities and schools are shut down

Religious liberty—and the centrality of sleep-away to Jewish education—at stake in a ruling expected this week

Fear tactics in the New York governor’s race cheapen the danger of anti-Semitism

All the news that’s fit to skim

Andrew Cuomo: ‘There is no place for hate or discrimination or bigotry in New York’

‘If you boycott Israel, New York will boycott you’

Governor Andrew Cuomo moves forward, Oklahoma and Michigan move backward

New York State starves schools of money. In East Ramapo, Orthodox Jews—and special-needs children—get the blame.

B-movie sci-fi scheme unraveled by FBI, Schenectady Reform synagogue, and Ku Klux Klan informant. But was it dangerous?

Responses from New York State’s semi-homemade First Lady

Jewish summer camp drilling drama heats up

Staunch Republicans still backed Democratic measure

With religious exemptions in place, N.Y. state Sen. Saland voted his conscience