Developer Shia Weber/NJ Home Care Services wants to convert a building on Sunset Avenue in Toms River into an Orthodox Jewish high school.

NEW YORK (AP) — Frieda Vizel left an ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect in New York in a crisis of faith at 25. But instead of cutting ties, she became a successful online personality and guide to the ...

TOMS RIVER -- An application for the township's first Orthodox Jewish high school is scheduled to be heard June 26 by the zoning board.

Tour participants walk past an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man during a June 16 tour by Frieda Vizel of the Hasidic section of Williamsburg in the Brooklyn borough of New York.

New York’s Orthodox Jewish community is hailing as a win a recent verdict from New York’s highest court that brings to end a years-long conflict over the state’s regulation of private and religious ...

A fast-growing Orthodox Jewish community near the Jersey Shore could soon get its first private religious high school. The Toms River zoning board is scheduled to hear an application Thursday to ...

Frieda Vizel left her ultra-orthodox lifestyle in a crisis of faith at 25 but instead of cutting ties she became a tour guide to the world of New York's ultra-Orthodox Jews. Vizel gives sold-out ...

Jewish New Yorkers were “stunned” and “disgusted” in the runup to Tuesday’s mayoral primary by bizarre pro-Zohran Mamdani text messages claiming to come from a friend of a slain Oct. 7 ...

While Zohran Mamdani won over some Jewish supporters, other Jewish Democrats suggested that concerns about their community’s safety are being dismissed in a movement and a city they helped build.

A 31-year-old woman is charged with aggravated manslaughter a year after Florida police said a 9-month-old baby died at her illegal day care. Getty Images/iStockphoto A woman accused of running an ...