I played everything from a creepy nun to a Hasidic Jew to John Early (albeit from behind, with a bald spot shaved into my head). It was film school on the cheap.

At age 18, Beatrice Weber, from Canada, was 'sold' to a man who became her husband. But after years of enduring horrific 'manipulation' and 'abuse,' she built up the strength to escape.

A hasidic rabbi in Ashdod has warned that Jews should only purchase wigs certified not to have been made using hair derived from a ritual head-shaving practiced in India.

Frieda left the Satmar Hasidic community at age 25, but she didn’t go very far, and her unique combination of knowledge, freedom, and love for what she’s left behind inform her work there.

After the war, they moved close to a Hasidic community called Satmar. Founded in Szatmar, Hungary, in 1928, Satmar is the largest Hasidic group today, with about 100,000 followers worldwide.

He claimed in interviews to have grown up speaking Yiddish as a Hasidic Jew in New York City, but legal documents show that Cohen was born Jeffrey Lujan Vejil in Odessa, Texas, in 1984.

For a particular group of Jews, art is typically a form of decor, not commentary. But a new generation of artists is trying to make nonconformist pieces while remaining observant.

May 19 (UPI) --Four sailors have filed a lawsuit seeking to stop the U.S. Navy from forcing them to shave in violation of their religious beliefs. Three of the sailors, a Hasidic Jew and two ...

Electrician's Mate (Nuclear) 3rd Class Edmund Di Liscia, a Hasidic Jew aboard the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt, was counseled Thursday and ordered to shave his beard by Friday.

Not many people leave ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities. Most who do try to keep it secret, because, if everyone knew, the marriage prospects of their siblings could be irreparably damaged. The ...

Hasidic Jews form a small but highly visible sliver of the Jewish community, constituting less than 6% of U.S. Jews. Hasidic people (called Hasidim, from the Hebrew), tend to dress distinctively ...

Highly observant Jews obey 613 laws regarding all aspects of their lives. Many Hasidic men believe it is their role to force, cajole and corral their family members into adherence.