When the administration’s policies are good for New York, I will support them. When they aren’t – like the tax bill – I will negotiate and make them better.
By JNi.Media
Jewish day school and Yeshiva enrollment in New York City has become almost as large as the entire New York City based charter school population.
By Duvi Honig
Religiously observant, Minister Elkin made a major kiddush Hashem when he walked a great distance one Shabbos to receive urgent medical care.
By Duvi Honig
The lineup at the business conference will feature at top-of-the-line presenters on an array of pertinent general business topics, as well as several intriguing workshops catering to Women in the Workforce.
By JNi.Media
"One World Trade Center now fills the hole left in our skyline when the Towers fell, and businesses shuttered after the attack are re-opened and thriving."
The funds were to be allocated to pay for consultants, vendors and services as well as to purchase video conferencing equipment for yeshivas.
By Shimmy Blum
Insurance companies often do not cover necessary treatments, leaving patients with as much as $100,000 a year or more in out-of-pocket medical expenditures.
By Mimi Minsky
As an immigrant from the Dominican Republic, Alcantara can empathize and understand more than most the challenges young women and men often face coming into a new world, and she takes it upon herself to advocate for those in need.
By JNi.Media
From pro-Israel Christian, Salazar became a bona fide anti-Zionist Jewish activist.
By JNi.Media
Simon did not write about Jewish subjects, but much of his work was rooted in New York Jewish life.
Schneider says the values he learned growing up in a Jewish household play a large role in his activism and desire to serve his community. It is what gives him such a strong commitment to pursing justice and volunteering for the community.
By Mimi Minsky
“There was nobody to really show me that you can be a full-time working mom and have a family. This is why I’ve always allowed kids to intern for me, shadow me on any given day, and into my life and home.”
By JNi.Media
Everybody in the place was careful not to mention Israel or Jews.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Ben's Best closed on June 30th, why are there so few Jewish delicatessens left in the Big Apple?
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
While young people were preparing for their flights to Israel, they were asked about certain issues and policies, with their answers recorded.
Peralta stressed to The Jewish Press that his bill is not designed to be "a cash grab," and that fines would remain $50.
Watch the Celebrate Israel in NY Parade
By JNi.Media
She is known as a "fierce proponent of school vouchers" that would allow students to attend private schools with public funding.
By JNi.Media
According to Moskowitz, what set the man off was the fact that he, Moskowitz, greeted him with a hello.
By JNi.Media
The works on canvas represent a period of her work in the 1980’s which is virtually unknown and are shown for the first time together in this exhibition.
By Allen Fagin
Each of us participates in a very personal encounter with history and its modern manifestations; with our personal journey from galut to geulah.
By Marc Gronich
Master of Ceremonies Yaacov Brisman, a labor lawyer, noted his frustration with humor. “This is my third year and the reason I love coming back is because this is the only event that it doesn’t matter what I say because nobody’s listening.”
By Marc Gronich
It was tense at the beginning when we didn’t know what the circumstances were and what the intentions of the protestors were.
By JNi.Media
Israeli startups will get a chance to pitch to US-based investors in a Meet and Pitch event. The winner will be eligible for a $1 million investment.
By JNi.Media
“This isn’t the time to attack Orthodox Jews, let’s find these specific men and deal with it that way,” one user suggested.
By State Senator Simcha Felder
While comforting and well intentioned, these officers don’t stand a chance in the event of a sudden attack.
By JNi.Media
This year’s Nefesh B’Nefesh Mega Event, March 11 in New York City, will provide an all-encompassing slate of resources for retirees, young professionals, families and singles looking to make Aliyah, including a Medical Professionals Seminar
By Allen Fagin
However, beneath the surface, behind that veil of stillness and seeming lifelessness, organisms are thriving, and the natural processes are ongoing that will produce the spring rebirth and the fruit of the coming season.
Cuomo said that he is hopeful that the surcharge will create a shift away from opioids within the medical community.
“In the end, Congress will do what ‘the Jew’ wants, as the vulgar prototype of true power is called,” she wrote.
Touro has created a school with strong roots that will allow professionals and individuals to survive the storms of life, said Dr. Alan Kadish, president of the Touro College and University System,
By Allen Fagin
Like most assimilated American Jews, their Jewish future was in peril, and the probability of their marrying outside the faith was statistically more than 70 percent.
After Sunday's anti-Semitic protest in New York's Times Square in which protesters openly called for the massacre of Jews, it is no surprise that a brainwashed Islamist tried to commit a suicide bombing.
Muslim protesters in New York's Times Square called for the massacre of the Jewish people.
By JNi.Media
Eventually the NYPD showed up, rounded up the rioters and released them—uncharged—outside.
They already had cargo planes ready, and Diaz allowed room on his Bronx containers for the Brooklyn donations.
By JNi.Media
The OU is planning an ad campaign condemning the mayor's failure to meet the nutritional needs of city children.
In the midst of the day’s frenzied activities, a VIP dinner was held where leaders of both Chambers celebrated the event’s success with some of the leading business and governmental figures in attendance.
In an era in which there is a breakdown of civic and civil conversation, Yeshiva University is uniquely positioned to address the most pressing moral issues of the day.
By Marc Gronich
Mike was very proud of being an Orthodox Jew” recalled Jeff Leb, president and founder of the lobbying firm Capitol Consulting.
By JNi.Media
Judging historical figures according to our most current social mores is politically beneficial.
By JNi.Media
Goldman Sachs is facing a proposed class action suit in the same court in Manhattan over its alleged discrimination against women in pay and promotions.
Baron, an active participant in Jewish life, gives tzedakah generously and volunteers to fund and feed the Jewish poor, and the elderly.
Rabbi Chaim Steinmetz, head of the Monsey eruv, opposes the notion that the eruv will facilitate an influx of Jewish residents.
By Shimmy Blum
Senator Menendez’s office was clearly impressed upon by the discussion, and vowed to immediately undertake concrete action to help people succeed in their business endeavors.
But to Orthodox summer residents, the zoning proposal, with its restrictive laws on building, is an effort to curb the growth of Jewish camps and communities.
By Allen Fagin
What is the message we are giving our children about our values and priorities?
Kronfeld believes her "progressive conservativism" will have widespread appeal for New Yorkers.
By D.S. Levi
NYPD made quick work of the agitators who were attempting to block both mayors from continuing their march.
By D.S. Levi
The driver, a resident of Bronx, appeared to be intoxicated, Mayor DeBlasio said.
By Marc Gronich
The Jewish community in Kosovo never fully recovered from the war as many emigrated to Israel during the Communist period.
By JNi.Media
Top Israeli singer Ninet Tayeb gave a special tribute performance to Leonard Cohen at the conference’s gala event on Saturday night.
By JNi.Media
Bring your own food and water, and download a movie on your iPad or laptop ahead of the flight.
By D.S. Levi
A terrorist is sentenced and then jailed... "and then, he’s paid more than $3,000 every month.”
By Allen Fagin
We were thrilled to see this budget passed, but it was the product of diligent efforts by committed parents, educators, and lay leaders.
By Marc Gronich
The observant Jewish community is calling on state lawmakers to allow parents the right to choose where to educate their children.
By dvora
The OU hired lobbyists in Albany and partnered with Jewish day schools, parents, lay leaders, and volunteers across New York.
"Jewish landlords ... are at the forefront of pushing black and Latino people out of Upper Manhattan," he charged.
By JNi.Media
Kosher airline meals are the most expensive type of airline meal served, costing nearly twice as much as standard meals, and offered at no additional cost.
Families always face the dilemma of planning fun and appropriate activities during intermediate days of Passover.
A Jewish father teaches his daughter about the Torah commandment to burn all remaining bits of bread, etc. before the start of Passover.
After news of the inglorious disinvitation spread, UJA Fed CEO Eric Goldstein offered Chesler an abject apology.
By JNi.Media
Arguing that respect and sensitivity protect public health better than a restrictive policy, the mayor waived the requirement that parents sign a consent form showing understand the risks involved in Metzitzah B'peh.
By Marc Gronich
A multi-faceted, non-sectarian, non-profit social service agency that acts as the eyes and ears of the community to address communal and individual concerns and needs, COJO provides assistance to more than 24,000 clients with more than 55,000 services.
By Marc Gronich
State education officials say they spend $26 billion throughout New York on elementary and secondary education. That number is higher than most state budgets and more than the operating budget of many countries.
By JNi.Media
Participants were invited to choose from more than 50 sessions, workshops and one-on-one meetings on topics ranging from home buying and education to professional licensing and health insurance.
By JNi.Media
Dusseldorf art gallery owner Max Stern was expelled from the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts in 1935, because of his religion, and was forced to sell his collection.
New Yorkers are stepping up in the face up rising anti-Semitic incidents.
By Marc Gronich
As expected, the ridesharing proposal is being hailed as the right move by all groups except the taxi industry.
By State Senator Simcha Felder
Of course we all feel fortunate when a threat turns out to be only a threat, or when an act of intended terror is foiled. We feel fortunate because we’ve seen the results of the real thing too many times.
By Marc Gronich
The OU turned their convention into a gathering for the entire spectrum of Orthodox Jewry.
Sara Markowitz celebrated her 102nd birthday with her family...
By JNi.Media
Masbia volunteers say they want everyone to have a hot meal this holiday season despite their own financial duress.
By Marc Gronich
Hikind disputes claims by DOT officials that right turns are responsible for a substantial percentage of pedestrian-auto traffic injuries.
By State Senator Simcha Felder
Here’s the question one of the reporters should have asked that day: Were hate crimes – and other crimes – up in our city before Donald Trump announced his candidacy?
By JNi.Media
'If you boycott against Israel, New York will boycott you. If you divert revenues from Israel, New York will divert revenues from you. If you sanction Israel, New York will sanction you, period. Thank you.'
By JNi.Media
Netanyahu's office issued a written directive at 4 PM Sunday asking cabinet ministers not to make contact with the president-elect or his staff.
By JNi.Media
Some 50 years ago, real estate developer Fredrick Trump was among the main donors to the Beach Haven Jewish Center at 723 Ave. Z in Flatbush, NY.
By JNi.Media
“He asked us to come, we never invited him," ZOA President Mort Klein stated, adding, "Of course, an important guy like him says he wants to come, I say yes.”
By JNi.Media
Senator Squadron invited New Yorkers and the media to join him on Sunday at the Adam Yauch park on State Street at 11:30 AM, "to stand against hate in our backyard, our city, and our country."
By Marc Gronich
We have to be very clear-headed and cautious about what is said because what is said by the U.S. president is paid minute attention to by the rest of the world.