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.
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.
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.
By COLlive.com
The grenades were found in a building housing a mental health facility and institute for community living.
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.”
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.
By COLlive.com
"It appears that the perp intentionally struck the victim," a police source said.
By COLlive.com
The scam has already affected members of the Crown Heights Jewish community.
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.
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.
A Holocaust doesn’t just happen one, two, three. A Holocaust doesn’t begin with Auschwitz. It ends there!
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.
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 […]
Two of the attackers have been arrested, the third is still on the run.
The police have placed 10-15 more policemen on the street every day – but attacks on Jews keep on occurring.
The Inauguration of Sarah and Michoel Behrman Way in Crown Heights
Rod Bryant brings on Rabbi Dovid Weissman to discuss what it really means to be a light to the nations?
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 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.
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.
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.
By JNi.Media
Several bystanders immediately tried to capture the assailant, who was fleeing the scene.
Footage clearly shows that police did not use excessive violence.
By JTA
Rabbi Raksin’s funeral was in North Miami Beach , and he will be buried in New York on Mnday.
By Ari Pfeffer
Venturing outside my comfort zone was unnerving, but I am so happy I challenged myself in this way.
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 […]
What originally seems like fun can quickly turn into a buzz kill.
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."
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
By Tibbi Singer
After a day with Lubavitch Hasidim, Oprah Winfrey says Jewish Life offers a wealth of lessons for the world.