As a child, I yearned to leave southern Brooklyn’s enclave of Soviet Jewish immigrants. But watching old home movies decades later, I saw the place in a new light.

Losing, and finding, oneself in the late rapper’s raw honesty

The language contemporary Hasidim use in everyday life borrows from English and simplifies a richer linguistic ancestor—and yet is more alive

The discontent over unfair coronavirus restrictions in Brooklyn’s ultra-Orthodox communities is boiling over and turning inward

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.

As anti-Semitic attacks are on the rise, the community’s neighborhood watch steps up

Boro Park, Brooklyn, late 1970s, at the nexus of a cultish hippiedom and ultra-Orthodoxy

In an excerpt from the new history ‘The Last Pirate of New York,’ a son connects his father’s Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, to the original American gangsters who preceded them

For Brooklyn’s Syrian Jews, an annual trip to the Caribbean island has become a family tradition

A childhood spent gazing wistfully at the neighbors’ Christmas display

The iconic Brooklyn-based artist celebrates a new survey of her work at the Jewish Museum

Blaming Trump only gets you so far

The complex personal history and views of an increasingly competitive New York state Senate candidate for Brooklyn

Brooklyn Seltzer Boys is the last of a dying breed

Looking back on an American and Jewish experiment in communal living