יום שבת, 12 ספטמבר 2026Saturday, September 12, 2026
Follow Us
יום שבת, א׳ תשרי תשפ״זSaturday, September 12, 2026
Follow Us

Sections

Crown Heights

NY / Police and Crime / Antisemitism / Chabad

‘Here We Go, Another One’: 13-Year-Old Chabad Boy Assaulted in Crown Heights

By Vita Fellig

“We should be able to send our boys off to school on their bikes without worrying,” the victim's mother told JNS.

NY / Police and Crime / Antisemitism / Chabad

Jewish Man Stabbed Near Chabad HQ in Antisemitic Attack

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

The assailant reportedly yelled “free Palestine” and “do you want to die?” before stabbing a young Jewish man in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.

Headline / NY / Antisemitism

Jewish Man Punched Repeatedly, Robbed in Crown Heights, Brooklyn

By COLlive.com

The attacker also stole the victim’s cell phone and then called him a [expletive] "dirty Jew" before fleeing the scene. The victim was taken to a nearby hospital in stable condition.

NY / News Briefs

Bomb Threat Temporarily Shuts Down Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights

By COLlive.com

The grenades were found in a building housing a mental health facility and institute for community living.

Headline / NY / Antisemitism / Chabad

Second Violent Mugger Arrested in Crown Heights Robbery Attack

By COLlive.com

“We demand that the NYPD add more protection in the neighborhood. Our children, our families, must be able to walk safely on our streets.”

NY / Chabad

Chabad Shabbaton to Attract Thousands of Teens from Around the World

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

The annual event, hosted in New York City, fosters a sense of Jewish community for students from North America and around the world.

Headline / NY

Brooklyn Jewish Man Hurt in Crown Heights Ramming

By COLlive.com

"It appears that the perp intentionally struck the victim," a police source said.

NY / Chabad

Beware: WhatsApp Scammers Stole Thousands of Dollars in Brooklyn

By COLlive.com

The scam has already affected members of the Crown Heights Jewish community.

NY / Police and Crime / Antisemitism

Official Welcomes Installing of 100 Cameras in NY in Response to Anti-Semitic Attacks, Calls for More Action

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.

In Print / NY

Guardian Angels Arrive To Protect Jewish Neighborhoods

By Jewish Press Staff

The Guardian Angels’ ultimate aim is to “engage Jews to get more involved, to be more vigilant – and not be as dependent on the mayor, governor, and the police,” Sliwa told The Jewish Press.

Featured / Interviews and Profiles

Should We Leave America? An Interview with Activist Shifra Hoffman

By Molly Resnick

A Holocaust doesn’t just happen one, two, three. A Holocaust doesn’t begin with Auschwitz. It ends there!

Featured / NY / Antisemitism

Doubt Lingers about ADL’s Ability to Fight Anti-Semitism in Brooklyn, Despite the New Push

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

“The ADL has failed to call out any form of anti-Semitism that isn’t borne of white supremacy, and their curriculum is more about tolerance and racism in general than it is about the unique history of anti-Semitism,” said Bryan Leib, a board member of Americans Against Anti-Semitism.

NY

Albany Beat - April 26, 2019

By Marc Gronich

Yeshivos Get A Judicial Reprieve State Supreme Court Judge Christina Ryba handed down a favorable decision for yeshivos last week, protecting the school leadership from having to adhere to unilateral oversight from the State Education Department’s local school authorities when it pertains to secular course curriculum. The 11-page guidelines were established in November. The arguments […]

Featured / NY / Police and Crime / Antisemitism

Two Jewish Men Beaten Up in Brooklyn, Two Attackers Arrested

By Jewish Press News Desk

Two of the attackers have been arrested, the third is still on the run.

NY / Police and Crime / Antisemitism

Full List of Crown Heights Attacks on Jews

By Jewish Press Staff

The police have placed 10-15 more policemen on the street every day – but attacks on Jews keep on occurring.

Video of the Day

The Inauguration of Sarah and Michoel Behrman Way in Crown Heights

By Video of the Day

The Inauguration of Sarah and Michoel Behrman Way in Crown Heights

Beyond the Matrix

Jews It's Time To Step Up to Your Calling - Beyond The Matrix

By Israel News Talk Radio

Rod Bryant brings on Rabbi Dovid Weissman to discuss what it really means to be a light to the nations?

NY / Politics / Police and Crime / Antisemitism / News Briefs / On Campus / Education

Police Investigate Swastikas on NYC New School Dormitory Doors

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."

Israel / Haredim & Hassidim / US / Global / History / News Briefs / Media / Chabad

How 1970s Hassidic Hackers Created Worldwide Broadcast Network

By Chabad.org

This is the story of how a handful of young Hassidim set out to build a global communications network in the era before Periscope, Skype, VoIP, or even satellite or Cable TV.

NY / Elections

The Many Faces Of Election Season 2016

By Molly Meisels

The election season in Brooklyn is no different. As a borough with one of the most eclectic mixes of ethnicities in all of America, voting for representatives is very important to its inhabitants.

Jewish / US / Politics / Elections / News Briefs / Islamists / Saudi Arabia

Hillary's Muslim Adviser Huma Abedin Leaving Anthony Weiner

By JNi.Media

Weiner was vehemently pro-Israel in Congress, and yet in 2010 he married Huma Abedin, a Muslim of Indian and Pakistani descent who was raised and educated in Saudi Arabia.

Jewish / US / News Briefs

Black Man Beats Up a Jew in Crown Heights

By JNi.Media

Several bystanders immediately tried to capture the assailant, who was fleeing the scene.

Jewish / NY / News Briefs

Dramatic Video of Police Killing Knife-Wielding Man at 770

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Footage clearly shows that police did not use excessive violence.

Haredim & Hassidim / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Florida

Funeral Held in Miami for Murdered Rabbi

By JTA

Rabbi Raksin’s funeral was in North Miami Beach , and he will be buried in New York on Mnday.

Op-Eds

My Journey: The Fusion Of Secular Education And Torah Judaism

By Ari Pfeffer

Venturing outside my comfort zone was unnerving, but I am so happy I challenged myself in this way.

Jewish / News Briefs / Obituaries / Local

NJ Chabad Rabbinical Student Killed in Garbage Truck Accident

By JTA

A New Jersey rabbinical student on his way to morning prayers was struck by a garbage truck and killed in Brooklyn. Gedalia Gruntzweig, 25, a student at Tiferes Bachurim, a Chabad-Lubavitch yeshiva in Morristown, was visiting friends in Crown Heights on Sunday for a pre-wedding party. Gruntzweig, a Ukraine native, was pronounced dead at the […]

Op-Eds

Kill the Quest for 'Chill'

By Mrs. Amber Adler

What originally seems like fun can quickly turn into a buzz kill.

Jewish / NY / News Briefs / Media

NYC Councilwoman-Elect: 'Knockout' Triggered by Jewish Success

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

The future New York City Councilwoman blamed the violence of "young people of color" in her community on "governmental neglect, outside uncontrolled influences and failed leadership."

NY / Police and Crime / News Briefs

12 Yr Old Jew Not Knockout Victim, Attacker Bullied to Attack Him

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

13 yr old assailant was told he'd "lose respect" if he didn't punch someone in the face, so the 12 yr old he punched was not deemed victim of "Knockout."

Haredim & Hassidim / NY / News Briefs

Rebbetzin Devorah, Wife of Lubavitcher Rebbe's Aide Rabbi Yehuda, Laid to Rest

By Malkah Fleisher

Rebbetzin Devorah Krinsky, wife of chief aide to the late Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, passed away on Friday night at the age of 74.

NY / Politics / News Briefs / US Elections 2012

NY Jewish Boroughs Voted Romney

By Malkah Fleisher

An analysis of a recent New York Times article examining the presidential voting trends of all the New York precincts determined that almost all Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods voted for Republican candidate Mitt Romney over Democratic incumbent Barack Obama.

Arts / Haredim & Hassidim / News Briefs

Chabad Women Rocking in 'Bulletproof Stockings' (Video)

By Jewish Press Staff

Rocking custom sheitels and opaque tights, and walking the sidewalks of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Dalia Shusterman and Perl Wolfe have the Hasidic world talking – and singing along to the tunes of their Hasidic alternative rock girl band, Bulletproof Stockings.

Front Page

So Different Yet Similar

By dvora

Music played loudly while the men danced. On the women’s side of the mechitzah, we tried to speak over the sounds. I leaned over the table to hear what my co-worker’s wife was saying.

Jewish / NY / Global

Oprah Winfrey Impressed by Religious Jews

By Tibbi Singer

After a day with Lubavitch Hasidim, Oprah Winfrey says Jewish Life offers a wealth of lessons for the world.

Serials

Persuaded – Chapter III

By Barbara Bensoussan

View all
cross