יום רביעי, כ״ג תמוז תשפ״וWednesday, July 8, 2026
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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
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.
"There's no nexus whatsoever between Yiddishkeit and the anti-vaccination movement," said Rabbi Kotler.
By Hannah Rubin
The project had a dual objective: to alleviate these families’ financial woes, and to establish personal ties with them with the aim of showing that Jews in America cared.
I often wonder what it would take to encourage women in our community to become chaplains?
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