Three months into his return to the White House, U.S. President Donald Trump has churned out a series of sweeping domestic and foreign policies. The underlying motivation behind these moves is ...

In a tranquil compound at the foot of sacred Mount Kulen, a former opposition politician is preparing his followers for the apocalypse. Khem Veasna, the head of the League for Democracy Party ...

One of Jesse Morris’ earliest memories is sitting on his father’s shoulders at the church on Webster Street, in Oregon, Illinois, waiting for his pastor to rise from the dead. On an early spring night ...

The remote border location allowed the sect to thrive with relatively few intrusions, given the towns’ distance from neighboring populations and the possibility of crossing the border to avoid raids ...

A profoundly human tale about a young woman who leaves the Hasidic Satmar sect has universal themes for the religious and secular. Back in 2012, when Deborah Feldman’s memoir “Unorthodox ...

Kiryas Joel, in upstate New York, is an almost exclusively Hasidic community, with the majority of its residents part of a branch of the Satmar sect. In a separate development, the leader of the ...

Fried works as a news reporter and runs a Twitter feed aimed at the insular Satmar sect, to which the accused abuser, Nechemya Weberman, belongs, a source said. Called Satmar Headquarters ...