In 1990, the Kiryas Joel school district opened its doors — and controversy has followed it ever since. Not only did its creation spark a lengthy court battle over church-state separation that reached ...

KIRYAS JOEL - The health commissioners of New York and Orange County filed a lawsuit on Friday to force a Kiryas Joel school to comply with orders issued last week for all schools in the community to ...

Congressman Lee Zeldin vs. Governor Kathy Hochul. Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum, one of the two Grand Rebbes of Satmar and the chief rabbi of the Satmar community in Kiryas Joel, New York, is urging his ...

A macro look at where the population grew in upstate New York since 2010 shows enormous gains in Orange County. But there is a unique reason. The village of Kiryas Joel, coterminous with the town of ...

Imagine if you were a parent of a special-needs child. State and federal laws guarantee you the right to a free, appropriate public education, so you send your child to the local public school. In ...

A rabbi and another man have been charged in New York City in a plot to kidnap and murder a man so his wife could be divorced consistent with her religious beliefs. FBI agents conducted raids Thursday ...

Created for a New York Hasidic group in 1989, the Kiryas Joel Village Union Free School District has directed millions of dollars to the community’s network of private schools. Auditors found that two ...

SOUTH BLOOMING GROVE - The group that bought Mayor George Kalaj's home and property for $4.6 million before his re-election last month reportedly plans to build a religious school, wedding halls and ...

KIRYAS JOEL — A 40-year-old village man was charged Friday with arson and burglary in connection with a fire early Thursday morning at the Kiryas Joel Public School on Dinev Road. State police said ...

New York state authorities have indicated that they will intervene if members of a Hasidic Jewish community hold weddings and corresponding receptions and refuse to abide by coronavirus-related ...