A 30-year-old mother of four, aspiring model, and former member of Brooklyn's Hasidic community is fighting for a divorce from her allegedly abusive husband and for custody of her children. "It was an arranged marriage," Pearlperry Reich tells the Post, referring to her wedding to Sinai Susholz when she was 18-years-old. "We got married and right away we had issues." Reich claims that Susholz "cut up her $4,000 wig and told her mother in front of their children that she was a "slut." Susholz apparently has taken to Facebook to accuse her of "promiscuous sexual activities." more ›

The country's richest woman spent a day with a Hasidic family in Crown Heights, and when she realized they had no idea what an "Oprah" was, she was apparently transformed into a normal person. "I didn't know I was more Hasidic Jew than I thought," she told Rabbi Motti Seligson in an interview after the visit. "I respect its reverence for a sense of family, a sense of harmony, a sense of grace and graciousness within the family." more ›

While no one would confuse "McCartney" as a Hebrew name, Sir Paul does seem to have a thing for nice Jewish girls. His first wife, Linda, was a member of the tribe, and apparently Macca had talked about converting after marrying her, but "never got around to it." After a brief stint with shiksa Heather Mills, McCartney has once again fallen for a Jew, current MTA board member Nancy Shevell, whom he married last month. And this time, he's being a real mensch. more ›

Rosh Hashanah is here which means Yom Kippur is around the corner and you know what that means? Time for the annual protests of the annual chicken swinging ritual known as kapparot. The generally fatal chicken "swinging" and slaughtering most often performed on the day before Yom Kippur (but can be held anytime between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur) and has some very vocal adversaries. Opponents, who this year advertised briefly in Times Square, aren't against the ritual so much as they're against the chicken killing. more ›

Prisoners do not have a constitutional right to daily matzoh and weekly grape juice, a federal judge has ruled. Even if they ask really nicely! The decision from U.S. Southern District Judge Shira Scheindlin came in response to a suit brought forth by a man named Christopher Henry, who is serving time on Rikers for first-degree sodomy. more ›

Should flight attendants have to be fluent in religious rituals? We wonder because for the second time in a little more than a year a flight has been disturbed when Orthodox Jews praying with tefillin were confused with terrorists getting ready to terrorize. Last January a flight out of LaGuardia was diverted to Philly over the prayer ritual and then yesterday a similar confusion struck an Alaska Airlines flight from Mexico City to LA. After concerns were raised the airplane was swarmed by police, FBI and customs agents when it landed at LAX. more ›

At Brooklyn Technical High School, students who identify with either religion have the option to join the Muslim Student Association and the Jewish Club, where they can discuss issues they face without judgment from other groups. The downside is they most likely spend those group meetings preaching to the choir, which is why the school has organized a joint meeting for all of the student-run religious clubs. Jewish Club president Jeremy Landau told the Daily News, "Jews and Muslims have more in common than people think." Like how they both don't dig on swine? more ›

Moishe Rosen, the founder of Jews of Jesus, passed away last Wednesday at age 78. The Daily News notes Rosen "gained thousands of followers while antagonizing the Jewish establishment" by asking "Jews to embrace Jesus as their savior without ditching their Jewish culture." The Jewish Community Relations Council of NY said in 1995, "What they are attempting is spiritual genocide. They want to see Judaism destroyed as an entity." A posthumous message from Rosen, posted on the website, says, "I hope I can count on you to show love and respect for the Jewish people, but Jewishness never saved anybody. Judaism never saved anybody no matter how sincere." more ›

Reports started coming across the wire earlier this morning that a flight out of LaGuardia Airport was being diverted to Philadelphia due to a bomb scare involving a passenger "who has wires strapped to his head and fingers." Turns out, there wasn't really a bomb on board, instead the plane was diverted because "an orthodox Jewish male put on customary 'tefilin' (sic) straps for his morning prayers." more ›

If you were wondering how recent converts to Judaism dealt with Christmas, look no further than this NY Times article. One said, "Everything just feels more tangible and in my face — I notice the angels when I walk down Fifth Avenue and feel a bit more disconnected. When I walked down Broadway, it felt like every pine tree had this strong scent, that they had just cut them. I had this moment of thinking, 'wow, this is not a part of me anymore."' But another reasoned, "I think it would be harder if I lived in Colombia, where everyone is doing Christmas. At least here, there is some kind of diversity. It is not as though everyone celebrates Christmas." more ›

An Orthodox rabbi is accused of telling a woman he would help her convert to Judaism if she had sex with him and his friends. According to the blog Failed Messiah, Rabbi Leib Tropper of Rockland County told Shannon Orand, a 32-year-old gentile who was interested in becoming a Jew: "If you fulfill my needs, I'll fulfill yours — and you need a conversion." more ›

Today, Jewish worshippers around the world are participating in events marking the "Blessing of the Sun." As Julie Wiener explains in the Wall Street Journal, "According to Talmudic calculations, every 28 years the sun is in the exact position it occupied at the time of Creation. As it happens, that moment falls on Wednesday, April 8, of this year, at sunrise -- just hours before Passover begins. There is a brief blessing for the occasion, too. It is called Birchat Hachamah, Hebrew for 'blessing of the sun.'" more ›