The focus in “Kugel” is on Nuchem Shtisel (Sasson Gabbay) and Libbi Shtisel (Hadas Yaron), brother and niece to Shulem Shtisel of Jerusalem. This is Nuchem and Libbi’s backstory in the ultra ...

A Haredi Jew, dressed in a black hat and coat with long payot, dangles a diamond necklace in front of his strikingly bulbous ...

He cut off his payos, the long sacred locks that grew from his temples. He fled — and eventually created “Shtisel,” a television series delving into the world he abandoned, a deeply layered ...

That was the scene last week when the citadel of high Reform Judaism on Manhattan’s Upper East Side was overtaken by “Shtisel”-mania. Fans of the Israeli TV series about the day-to-day ...