A more typical American scene would be hard to imagine: a young mother and her daughter in Wal-Mart. Yet as she pushed the shopping cart with the 4-year-old Esther Miriam sitting, princesslike, in the ...

KIRYAS JOEL — Some of the Hasidic women read the story about Sterna "Gitty" Grunwald soon after it came out in New York magazine. Others read it after hearing about it from friends. The reactions were ...

1. Mark Jacobson’s profile of Gitty Grunwald, the young woman who fled the reclusive Satmar community in which she was raised and is now fighting her ex-husband for custody of their daughter (“Escape ...

I haven’t actually been avoiding this story, but since receiving an e-mail from New York magazine’s flak on Monday I’ve lacked the time to really think about the most commented, most e-mailed and ...

New York magazine has a lengthy story on Gitty Grunwald, who left the Satmar enclave in Kiryas Joel, and is now fighting for custody of her small daughter: In early 2007, Gitty fled Kiryas Joel for ...