יום שני, י״א אלול תשפ״וMonday, August 24, 2026
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By Jason Maoz
The location was beautiful, the program top notch, the food delightful – and most importantly, the response from our seniors was gratifying beyond words. They really enjoyed the afternoon; the only ‘complaint’ was that the four hours went by too quickly, said Social Services Director Shulamis Shapiro.
By Marc Gronich
It’s important to be at the trade show because people are trying and tasting to see how delicious this healthy food is, said Chaim Tal, president of Meant to Be.
By Marc Gronich
The record will be sealed for violent felonies, including domestic violence offenses, endangering the welfare of a child. As a former special victims’ prosecutor, I really can’t get past that, said Assemblyman John McGowan (D-Pearl River).
By Marc Gronich
Some Jews will only come to Montego Bay because they can daven and get kosher food. We have a nice crowd among those who will book their vacation where Chabad is, Raskin said.
By Marc Gronich
Eight names were added last week bringing the total to 120 names of emergency medical service technicians. Each one has a touching story relating the pain of the family the medical personnel left behind.
By Marc Gronich
Wow. It’s such an honor to get this big, big award, Chernina, 75, told The Jewish Press. The award inspires me to help more people. I don’t want to call myself a role model. The role model was my mom, Bronislava, who helped me establish the organization and helped in many other ways.
By Marc Gronich
The measure is entitled the Not on our dime!: Ending New York funding of Israeli settler violence act to prohibit not-for-profit corporations from engaging in unauthorized support of Israeli settlement activity.
Tenant protections are not going away. They’re here. This is New York. However, we also have to balance out the needs of the landlords, of the real estate industry, to make certain there should be incentives to properly invest.
By Marc Gronich
I have visited Yad Vashem many times, but every time something hits you differently, said Schumer.
By Jason Maoz
Speaker Adams, for her part, stressed the need to stand united against hate, and work together across communities to deepen our care and understanding of each other.
By Marc Gronich
The controversial bail reform package that amended the discovery laws did not make it through to the final document, but money to help district attorneys gear up to hire more staff to reduce the backlog of cases was something she supported.
By Marc Gronich
With such strong pushback from state lawmakers, Hochul removed the $250,000 she put into the budget when the plan went down in flames.
By Marc Gronich
Wilson has chosen the Honorable Joseph Zayas for appointment as chief administrative judge for the entire court system. He is responsible for oversight of court operations, including a budget of more than $3 billion.
By Marc Gronich
The objection stems from a decision Wilson wrote in the case People v. Regan last month.
The challenge is big, but so are the hearts of our donors, said Alexander Rapaport, Executive Director of Masbia. We could not have done it without the generous support of thousands of donors, he added.
By Jason Maoz
An event like this brings the families of our community so much happiness – without any worries about the cost of an afternoon filled with entertainment, and with the convenience of being smack in the middle of their own neighborhood, sparing them a long Chol HaMoed schlep.
By Marc Gronich
Oiring said he wants to hear the good, the bad and the ugly from the guests at the hotel. Every hotel guest gets a customer service survey. We want to know what you are thinking, Oiring said.
By Marc Gronich
PEARLS sought a declaration that the New York Stated Education Department’s recently passed regulations conflict with governing law and are therefore null and void.
By Marc Gronich
Yeshivas don’t have an illiteracy rate. Yeshivas are places where education is emphasized significantly...
By Marc Gronich
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, who served for more than 44 years of dedicated leadership of the Chabad movement, established more than 1500 Lubavitch Centers helping people of all walks of life throughout the world, from Australia to Africa, from Holland to Argentina and from Moscow to Jerusalem.
By Marc Gronich
We now have ID.me. The moment we got ID.me up and running, fraud began to decline. About six to eight months later we got multi-factor identification. Again, fraud immediately began to come down.
By Marc Gronich
After a 15-minute presentation by Schick, the state took its best aim to shoot down Schick’s arguments.
By Jason Maoz
The festivities, held at the Boro Park Y, drew close to 100 enthusiastic seniors who delighted in an afternoon of spirited conversation, uplifting music provided by vocalist/musician Michael Abramovshchik, and a delicious meal.
By Marc Gronich
We’re noticing a decrease in the head count of the police officers at the 121 and 120 precincts. We would like to have some help and support there because the more resources they have, the better it is, Fall said.
By Marc Gronich
New York Mets owner Steve Cohen sees a prime opportunity for a new venture that would coincide with the plans by city officials to redevelop the neighborhood. He wants to purchase land near Citi Field to build a casino and create a community experience.
By Marc Gronich
The party conference also included a panel discussion by four of the seven freshmen congressmen from across the state.
By Marc Gronich
According to state budget officials, foundation aid is the main education operating formula for school distribution.
By Marc Gronich
I do think the single greatest issue confronting the Legislature is rolling back some of the criminal justice laws that are extraordinarily unpopular with most of the citizens of the state and extremely dangerous. Bail reform, for example, said Kassar.
By Marc Gronich
I was honored to be able to run on the various lines I had the opportunity to run on over the years. I was proud to have Democrats and Republicans agree on me at a time of such hyper-partisanship.
By Marc Gronich
I’m proud to announce we will be investing more than one billion dollars and making critical policy changes to finally and fully meet the mental health needs of our state, Hochul said.
By Marc Gronich
New Yorkers are not happy with the direction this state is heading. More than 400,000 people have left New York in the last two years and that’s on top of one million people leaving over the last decade,” said Assembly Republican Leader William Barclay...
By Marc Gronich
During her 13-minutes of remarks, James, who is beginning her second term as the state’s legal eagle, began by commenting that the word history should be changed to herstory in honor of Governor Kathy Hochul becoming the first female chief executive in New York.
By Marc Gronich
Outside income increases the independence of legislators vis-a-vis the governor, and makes us less vulnerable to gubernatorial retaliation, argued Assemblyman Phillip Steck (D – Colonie, Albany County), a lawyer by profession.
It wasn’t too long ago when a dozen eggs, a 5 pound bag of potatoes, and a 96 ounce jug of oil cost $7 or less. Now you’re lucky if you can get it for $25.
By Marc Gronich
I’m feeling the same as when it happened in my country. I'm feeling those same voices of evil and hatred are rising up, and where are the people stopping it?
By Marc Gronich
I think I’m really hopeful about the future that we have together. I think in the Jewish community, we as Jews need to do a better job communicating with each other, Epstein said.
By Marc Gronich
People want more honest people in politics and local politics, not just people who sit there for many, many years basically doing nothing.
By Jason Maoz
COJO’s regularly scheduled arts parties are designed to get seniors who are generally confined to their homes to spend time socially interacting with their peers and show off their creativity.
NYC Mayor Eric Adams made a surprise visit to the 9th annual Jewish Food Media Conference that usually takes place ahead of KosherFest.
By Marc Gronich
When Zeldin pointed out how bad the economy, crime and pocketbook issues are across the state, Hochul’s only response was to call Zeldin the grim reaper.
By Marc Gronich
Maloney had a brief mention of his support for Israel because she is our ally in the Middle East. Lawler didn’t do much better. We need to work with our NATO allies and Israel to ensure the safety and well-being of the world, Lawler said.
By Marc Gronich
A swastika, like a noose, is very upsetting and can’t be minimized.
By Marc Gronich
Greenblatt admits the ADL only refers incidents of hate crimes and antisemitism to federal authorities such as the FBI but does not follow up to see how these cases play out in court.
By Marc Gronich
We do not expect nonpublic schools to look the same as public schools, Coughlin said. Stakeholders encouraged us to include respect for different instructional models and values, so we did.
By Marc Gronich
Regent Susan Mittler, who is Jewish, told The Jewish Press on Monday that the Board has to look at the issue from a different lens than just the ultra-Orthodox community, which is protesting the new rules and regulations.
By Baruch Lytle
It’s incredible to see so many businesses come together, vibrant businesses – and Yaeger to give them guidance and the resources to grow even further, Avi Greenstein, CEO of BPJCC told The Jewish Press.
By Baruch Lytle
The mission of The Chicago Center is to help anyone in need – whether through referrals, advocacy, food or material goods – and to ensure the person has access to top notch healthcare and accommodations to get them through their journey.
While wearing a Black Lives Matter t-shirt, Awwad blamed the death of George Floyd on the IDF. Many police forces within our country actually go overseas to Israel to learn and to be taught abusive tactics, he said.
By Marc Gronich
I’m so happy it turned out well. It was a risky event. The space was massive. The comics were happy. It could have gone either way.
By Marc Gronich
She’s not stupid, she’s evil. There’s a difference. I am a victim like any other Jew at Kingsborough. It should not be about me, Lax said.
By Chana Ford
The CDC is very cognizant that they’ve lost public faith, explains Shoshana Bernstein of SB Writing and Communications and a local vaccine educator.
By Marc Gronich
It’s a very special day, it’s a very special month, it’s a very special 40 days. These days are days when G-d is available. It’s a day when we can connect, Karczag told the audience, not all of whom were Jewish.
By Marc Gronich
With no bodyguards present by state police nearby the stage where he spoke at the Hall of Philosophy, an executive with the Anti-Defamation League said he keeps his guard up.
By Marc Gronich
Jackson not only had to create the court from the ground up and define all the processes and the crimes but he had to actually convince people that a trial should occur.
By Alan Zeitlin
There were definitely mistakes that were made in the past and it is important to fix things as there are 20,000 Jewish students on CUNY campuses. I’m enthusiastic for what will be implemented.
By Marc Gronich
We collect information, literally, on threats that are emerging and help law enforcement stop them even before they happen. We collect data because people reported more than 2700 incidents to us in 2021.
By Marc Gronich
Hikind puts the blame on the district attorney offices for not prosecuting crimes of hate and instead sweeping the problem under the rug through plea bargains.
By Marc Gronich
he Giuliani name among Republicans, the respect and the influence, has dissipated because of the crazy role he has played with the Trump administration, Hikind said.
By Marc Gronich
When state lawmakers arrived in Albany for an extraordinary session of the Legislature, called by Governor Kathy Hochul a week after the decision was rendered, a bill was not ready for debate – costing taxpayers money unnecessarily.
By Marc Gronich
I think it’s important to understand that 58 percent of the religious-based hate crimes are against Jews out of a population of only 2 percent, said Alison Pure-Slovin, director of the Midwest Region of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, based in Chicago.
By dvora
Even with so much attention directed at events of the day, the focus of the Breakfast always came back to COJO Flatbush... To all the things COJO does for those in need.
By Marc Gronich
Gun-free zones don’t work, Zeldin agreed. They actually become a target for innocent civilians to be attacked because the person carrying out the offense knows they are going to encounter less resistance.
By Marc Gronich
Suozzi brought up the potential conflict of interest between Hochul’s husband, Bill, who is the general counsel for the company holding the vendor concession contract for the stadium, Delaware North.
By Marc Gronich
It’s always challenging taking on an incumbent, Felder told The Jewish Press. There are advantages to incumbency but people are ready for freshness, for new ideas and energy when there is a whole lot of complacency that they see right now.
By Marc Gronich
Last year, after returning from a New York delegation to Poland, I spoke on this day and I mentioned the need to take antisemitism in the United States seriously before it gets worse, Rozic said.
By Marc Gronich
Surrogate’s Court is not for the dead, it’s for the living. That is the key thing you have to keep in mind, Gingold told The Jewish Press exclusively.
As Rosh Beit Midrash, I look forward to spearheading a wide array of learning opportunities and experiences and to building relationships that further advance and deepen the already inspiring growth atmosphere at Darchei Noam, Rabbi Katz said.
By Baruch Lytle
We understand that without [the support and partnership of] government and our elected leaders, there’s nothing we can do, Greenfield told the attendees.
The war isn’t going away, a lot needs to be done, says Rabbi Blau. Many of the refugees are women and children whose husbands and sons were left behind to fight.
By Marc Gronich
This breakfast goes back more than 40 years where the community relies on this event for mingling and seeing their elected officials on a yearly basis, Louis Welz, COJO CEO, told The Jewish Press.
By Sandy Eller
Everyone is frantic, because this isn’t like hand sanitizer where you can just use a different brand, said Bernstein.
By Alan Zeitlin
Former Democratic Assemblyman Dov Hikind told The Jewish Press that he was furious with the museum’s decision.
By Marc Gronich
The phrase “spent his early career empowering young people,” might have been a veiled reference to Delgado’s career as a rapper, known as AD the Voice.
By Marc Gronich
It’s in our own house in New York, Brown said. We have more Jews than anywhere else in the world except for maybe Israel. We talk and we talk and we talk and we try to pass bills. We can’t even get a Holocaust study [bill] done in New York.
By Marc Gronich
Historians believe the way Grant wrote General Orders No. 11 it appeared he held antisemitic views since he expelled the Jews as a class.
By Marc Gronich
In Hebrew there is an expression Da lifnei mi attah omed – Look before whom you’re standing. I’m going to focus on my area when I have to work for the state. I’ll focus on my area, which is what I was elected for.
By Marc Gronich
It’s what they said about Nixon, in this case, what did she (Hochul) know and when did she know it? asked Assemblyman Eric (Ari) Brown (R-Cedarhurst, Nassau County), 54, the first Republican Orthodox Jew in the Assembly.
By Marc Gronich
This Agudah priority directly impacts families with children, by putting additional dollars in their pockets and helping them keep up with the costs of raising families, Weinstock wrote in a prepared news release.
By Marc Gronich
Tradition don’t sound as important as law and justice and the statutes. Tradition is, the Rebbe says, in his book on the Haggadah,... that tradition is sometimes even more important than law and justice and a real law.
By Marc Gronich
Opponents of the current law want to give judges additional authority and discretion in setting bail for lower-level crimes.
By Marc Gronich
In the history of this city and state, most often the challenger against the party wins the nomination, Rudy Giuliani told The Jewish Press.
By Marc Gronich
The people of Ukraine are suffering at the hands of a terrorist. Growing up in the region I know that President Putin has always been a tyrant but now he has officially lost his mind, said New York City Councilwoman Inna Vernikov (R-Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn).
By Marc Gronich
We are a stronger party when we ride together, said Pinion. We may not agree on the things we need to do but we are united in one quest, which is to make sure we put Chuck Schumer in the retirement home of politics once and for all.
By Marc Gronich
Adams told the Chazaq supporters what they are doing mirrors what he wants his administration to replicate. The newly-minted mayor also said that when he grew up his mother had trouble always putting a full meal on the table.
By Baruch Lytle
The NYPD reported there were 43 antisemitic hate crimes handled by their units so far this year. That’s compared to just 11 cases during this time in 2021.
By Marc Gronich
We need to talk about what’s involved with removal and commitment for the highest need individuals. Individuals who demonstrated they are not capable of taking care of themselves.
By Marc Gronich
Schumer, the only Jew on the statewide ticket, spoke about every ethnic group except his own.
By Marc Gronich
It's important to show up. To earn someone’s vote and it’s important to keep showing up to keep earning that support, said Zeldin, considered the presumptive party nominee for the Republicans and Conservatives.
By Marc Gronich
The Holocaust did not start at the death camps, it started years before with indifference. It is important for us to recommit men to the best aspects of human nature standing up for our colleagues.
By Marc Gronich
I want to make one point explicitly clear: We cannot go to the people who created our problems for the solution.
By Marc Gronich
Eichenstein told The Jewish Press. This was literally designed to keep Orthodox Jews out from the town. We should never bring any legislation to the floor that discriminates against any group of people.
By Marc Gronich
Even though Agudah’s main mission is to influence legislation on a state level, Benjamin talked about Israel to the group.
By Marc Gronich
The idea that the Jews went like sheep to the slaughter is absolute nonsense. Narishkeit, foolishness. The Jews did fight back.
Explaining why many Jewish homeowners in Fallsburg voted against Vegliante, Friedlander said, “Sometimes people are too parochial in the way they look at the issue as it pertains to them and only them. And they don’t understand the more complex picture.”
By Marc Gronich
We have a lot of work to do on extending producer responsibility to try to address our waste problems because certainly that’s first and foremost, Tighe emphasized.
By dvora
“I can’t put into words how much I missed these kinds of events,” said a woman who gave her age as a young 83.
By Marc Gronich
What we need to do is to figure out a mechanism to allow these people to fully participate in the community… We’ve got to teach the community about the worth of people with disabilities.
By Marc Gronich
Schwartz told The Jewish Press, I didn’t realize that when you try to avoid infection that’s considered discrimination. I’m used to thinking of discrimination as a social thing not as a medical thing.
By Marc Gronich
There is legislation on the books that every child, age 8 years and up, should get some type of Holocaust education in school, Kaplan noted. We don’t know how it’s working.
By Marc Gronich
This year Kassar, 62, is trying to advance legislation to make it easier for voters to influence policy and legislation without having to run for office.
August 21, 2026 
