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Over the past few weeks, we have reported several major anti-Semitic attacks in New York City.
When the men were locked out of the shul, they tore off the side mirror of a parked car.
There are good reasons to worry about a spike in infections in haredi enclaves, but the double standards used to justify new lockdowns undermine faith in government.
Governor Cuomo threatened to reverse bars and restaurant openings if overcrowding there continued.
Howard Slugh of the Jewish Coalition for Religious Liberty said the First Amendment applies to everyone unless the government has a compelling interest to restrict religious gatherings.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
In a letter in April, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) called for the U.S. Justice Department to “monitor New York City” for cases of “constitutional violations” concerning religious discrimination against Jews.
The Mayor committed to talk with his team to discuss whether or not taking down the tweet is the right thing to do.
While some rabbis have banned the porch minyan on various grounds, week upon week of staying home has started to wear people down, and the phenomenon has increased.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“It’s not a happy announcement, but it’s one we have to make,” said New York Mayor Bill de Blasio.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
100 new cameras will be installed in Williamsburg, Crown Heights and Borough Park. The first 30 cameras will be operational by March.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
After three attacks in recent weeks targeting visible Jews, residents and leaders are calling for greater police presence in their neighborhoods and stricter hate-crime laws.
By Joseph Aron and Shlomo Greenwald
Mayor Bill de Blasio on Tuesday declared a public health emergency in several zip codes in Williamsburg, Brooklyn to stem a nascent measles outbreak among Orthodox Jewish children.
By JNi.Media
The OU is planning an ad campaign condemning the mayor's failure to meet the nutritional needs of city children.
By JNi.Media
Judging historical figures according to our most current social mores is politically beneficial.
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 JNi.Media
One student said the experience "felt very violating and personal because it happened in a space where we live, where we hang out, where we sleep."
By JNi.Media
If Israel's security forces had used this yardstick in their approach to predictive profiling it would have choked not just its international airports, but traffic on the streets in many cities, too.
By JNi.Media
“I think it’s a very good thing, and I hope he does a very good job because frankly that would be very, very good.”
By JNi.Media
Here’s a good reason to like your new mayor: he, or, rather, his police dept., doesn’t fine you as much as it used to.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is visiting Yad VaShem Sunday during his two-day tour in Israel for the 30th International Mayors Conference. He will be joined by approximately 40 other international mayors participating in the conference. Mayor de Blasio will tour the Holocaust History Museum, participate in a memorial ceremony in the Hall […]
Nir Barkat is the mayor of Jerusalem, but Bill de Blasio is the mayor of the city with the largest Jewish community.
New York City has another husband-and-wife team helping to run the city with the disclosure that Rikki Klieman, the wife of Police Chief Bill Bratton, plans to go to community meetings with him and will use her connections through her appearance on CBS as a legal analyst to his advantage. The husband and wife duo, […]
“Did you miss me?” Lhota responded with a devilish smirk when asked by a Capital New York reporter about his new aggressive style.
Earlier on the campaign trail both candidates met with a Jewish Press panel.
Bill de Blasio intervened in in charges against a teacher at his daughter’s school and who protesting Israel’s policies in Gaza in 2004 and helped him avoid a jail term, The New York Daily News reported Sunday. Documents that now are available show that while de Blasio, leading candidate for mayor, was a city councilman, […]
Bill de Blasio may well be measuring the drapes of Gracie Mansion as a new poll shows him with a commanding 44 point lead.
Bill de Blasio has turned around the election polls one day before the real vote and has a chance to win Tuesday’s election without a run-off, according to the new and last pre-elections survey conducted by Quinnipiac University. De Blasio won 39 percent of the respondents’ support, one percent point short of the minimum 40 […]
Looks like disgraced Jewish New York politicians get one free pass, after that, the crowd turns ugly. Weiner, still spouting the happy talk, is now down to single digits in the polls.
Anthony Weiner’s entry in the race for New York City’s next mayor hurt the chances of Bill de Blasio, but the rapid tumble in Weiner’s ratings have turned things around for the liberal de Blasio, the city’s public advocate. "When Weiner entered the race, de Blasio was the most hurt, since they were both outer […]
“I didn’t leave my beard — my beard left me,” de Blasio told The Post.
Mr. Weiner, who is the only Jewish candidate running in the Democratic primary, was cheered by many marchers and onlookers, but many also booed.
There are not many issues the Democratic mayoral hopefuls agree on, especially when they are seated at one table.
An April 19, 2013 Quinnipiac University survey gives Weiner 15 percent of Democratic primary voters.
They're avoiding the appearance of taking sides.
It's cheap and it works.
“If Bill de Blasio is the company he keeps, his mayoral campaign could be in serious trouble.”
“Too often, the Bloomberg approach has been My way or the highway. I'll do things differently.”
Bill de Blasio, one of the Democratic frontrunner in the race for New York City mayor, met last week with the editorial board of The Jewish Press at the newspaper’s Boro Park office. De Blasio is the New York City public advocate.
Democratic candidate Erick Salgado called MBP “a practice that was commanded by God,” and practiced “since God told Abraham to do so.”
“And allow me to be clear and say we have Speaker Quinn to thank for the Bloomberg third term.”
July 3, 2026 
