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Antisemitism / NY

Village of Great Neck adopts IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

The Long Island community joined area municipalities that have also decided to actively confront the issue.

Antisemitism / On Campus / Education / News Briefs

Yeshiva Student Admits to Writing Antisemitic Graffiti

By JTA

A Long Island yeshiva student was charged with repeatedly scrawling antisemitic graffiti inside a commuter train station. Jonathan Schuster, 18, a senior at Priority-1: Torah Academy of Lawrence-Cedarhurst, in Cedarhurst, N.Y.,was charged with the crimes on Thursday He admitted to using black marker to write anti-Semitic statements, often including expletives, on eight occasions since December […]

NY / News Briefs / Jewish

Reward Increased in Search for Menachem Stark’s Killers

By JTA

The family of murdered Brooklyn landlord Menachem Stark has contributed $50,000 to what is now a total reward to $72,000 for information leading to the killer of the Satmar Hasidic real estate developer. The New York Police offered $20,000 and the NYPD Crime Stoppers program pitched in with $2,000. “We have increased the reward in […]

News Briefs / Antisemitism / The Courts / Police and Crime / NY

Long Island Man Arrested in 'Knockout' Attacks

By Tibbi Singer

Mitchell was arrested on Dec. 4, after he was identified by four victims.

US / News Briefs / Religion / Iraq / Judaism

Damaged Torahs Found in Iraq Buried in New York

By JTA

Damaged Torah scrolls found by U.S. troops in Iraq’s intelligence headquarters were buried in a cemetery in New York on Sunday, according to Jewish law for disposing of unusable religious objects and texts. More than 100 people, including Lukman Faily, the Iraqi ambassador to the U.S., attended the ceremony at the New Montefiore Cemetery in […]

NY

Long Island Orthodox Woman a Volunteer Firefighter

By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency

Weiner was born and raised in New York, where very few Orthodox Jewish women volunteer as firefighters, she says.

News Briefs

School Sued for Ignoring Anti-Semitic Taunts

By JTA

A suburban New York father is suing his school district over the anti-Semitic taunting of his son. Robert Slade filed the suit last week alleging that officials at Northport High School on Long Island took no action to stop a group of 20 students from traumatizing his son with taunts such as “Jews are disgusting,” […]

Serials

Freedom Is the Ownership of Time

By Itamar Frankenthal

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