Lyft has fired a driver who allegedly assaulted a member of a prominent Chabad rabbinical family in Washington, D.C. Rabbi Menachem Shemtov ordered a Lyft and asked the driver to turn down the music, but the driver became hostile and eventually punched Shemtov in the face.

Arie Dana, a Hasidic Jew, has become the first chief of staff for a member of Congress to be visibly Hasidic in appearance and observance.