“It has never been more important to condemn this moral depravity, demand accountability and implement President Trump’s America First peace through strength agenda,” Rep. Elise Stefanik said.
By Vita Fellig
The toll fees haven’t dissuaded Hatzalah volunteers from doing their jobs.
By David Isaac
The Noguchi Museum said that wearing a keffiyeh and other "such expressions can unintentionally alienate segments of our diverse visitorship."
By Joshua Marks
The White House condemned "any individual associating with the repugnant terrorist organization Hamas."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Of the 32 incidents assessed by investigators, 26 targeted Jews.
The suspect was part of a mob that harassed Jews in a subway car stopped at Manhattan's Union Square station.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The group of masked passengers on the subway demanded to know if there were any “Zionists” on the train.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
According to a state representative, more than 20 Jewish houses of worship were threatened over Shabbat.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
One yelled “God kill all the Jewish people” repeatedly while in police custody.
NYC mosques will be allowed to use external loudspeakers on Friday afternoons and every evening of Ramadan to call for prayers.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad Way” honors a dishonorable man who cozied up with neo-Nazis and called Jews greedy.
Minorities are committing vast majority of antisemitic assaults in NYC.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The attacker shouted “numerous” antisemitic comments at his victim, including referencing West, before fleeing on a bicycle pulling a trailer with the sign “Hungry Disabled.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The head of the NYPD Hate Crime Task Force, Deputy Inspector Andrew Arias, said hate crimes in New York have increased 45% in 2022.
Some 400 Blue and White tech initiatives are busily innovating in New York City.
By D.J. Kolpak
Attacking Jewish targets, abolishing the police and jails, supporting anti-Israel candidates, all of this in our name with "The Jewish Vote."
By D.J. Kolpak
Robinson took the far-Left org JFREJ (Jews For Racial & Economic Justice) to task for pretending to represent mainstream Jewish interests, or even Jewish interests at all,
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Four town hall meetings, in addition to Zoom interviews for two people vying for a seat on a mayoral advisory board, took place on the Friday night before Memorial Day weekend.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Jews are the target of 40% of all hate-crime incidents.
“The Flatbush Jewish community, our leadership, residents, yeshivah leaders, parents and business owners all agree that, for our community, the No. 1 issue in the election was public safety,” said community leader Chaskel Bennett.
By Sam Spirgel
The following is an interview of Maya Wiley that was conducted as part of an ongoing series of interviews of candidates running for NYC Mayor.
The leadership of the Satmar Chasidim in New York announced that they are backing of Brooklyn Borough president Eric Adams for mayor after previously endorsing his closest competitor former Democratic mayoral candidate Andrew Yang.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang said he has an issue with organizations that don’t disavow “very, very violent tactics” towards Israel, though he doesn’t have an issue with individuals or activists “making a case for what they think is right.”
By D.J. Kolpak
Only 3% of New Yorkers will actually get to choose the next mayor in the coming primaries this June.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Division of Human Rights is expected to hold a virtual forum for families discuss the incident and learn about resources to combat hate.
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.
There have been numerous inquiries about going to the Mikvah or to a Minyan for Maariv...
List of locations where the New York City Department of Education is providing free meals available daily for any New Yorker.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The ads feature images of individual New Yorkers, including two women, a person of color and a Chassidic man, along with the message “Jewish New Yorkers belong here. Anti-Semitism does not.”
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.
Spearheading advocacy for day schools and yeshivahs was the Jewish Education Project, a partner agency of UJA-Federation of New York.
Rabbi Uriel Vigler was on his way to morning prayers.
By JNi.Media
The eldest of 14 children, Rashida Tlaib was born to working-class Palestinian immigrants in Detroit, Michigan.
Davids guests on today’s show include Vijeta Uniyal founder and President of Indians4Israel, Virag Gulyas an Hungarian woman who is based in New York City from where she actively shakes up the pro Israel scene, and Ben Shahin who is founder of Allyus.org. -A Hebrew In The Heartland
After Sunday's anti-Semitic protest in New York's Times Square in which protesters openly called for the massacre of Jews, it is no surprise that a brainwashed Islamist tried to commit a suicide bombing.
New Yorkers are stepping up in the face up rising anti-Semitic incidents.
NYC Council member Chaim Deutsch sent a letter to President Obama asking for last-minute clemency for Sholom Rubashkin before he leaves office.
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."
NY Councilman Greenfield got fed up with hearing the anti-Israel tirades at the meeting, in particular from the Neturei Karta leader.
In recognition of the opening of One World Observatory in New York City, EarthCam released a special edition of their One World Trade Center video. It shows the completion of construction from October 2004 to Memorial Day 2015. Hundreds of thousands of high definition images were captured over the past 11 years and hand-edited for […]
Two Islamic holidays have officially been added to the New York City public school calendar, closing schools on those days starting next year.
Nir Barkat is the mayor of Jerusalem, but Bill de Blasio is the mayor of the city with the largest Jewish community.
A Jewish carpenter is suing New York City’s Housing Authority after allegedly being threatened and insulted with anti-Semitic epithets.
A Metro-North train derailed in the Bronx, killing 4 people and injuring 60. The train operator of 15 years said that his brakes failed.
Eliot Spitzer is receiving not just hate mail, but newspaper front page hate mail. All 3 major NYC newspapers endorsed his opponent, but Spitzer is nonetheless nearly 20 points ahead in the polls.
I have had reoccurring severely sprained ankles from a previous injury at work in late 2010, so I cannot get all the required signatures on foot myself.
By Paula Stern
I saw this graphic on Facebook and thought I'd share it.
Anthony Weiner’s aide has confirmed that the newest mayoral candidate will attend The Jewish Press’s mayoral forum, making it one of his first public forums. The Jewish Press newspaper, the largest independent Jewish weekly in America, will be hosting a mayoral forum for the Jewish community, featuring the Democratic candidates for mayor of New York […]
For the first time since September 2011, tolls for travelers going in and out of Manhattan are going up.
Joel Silverstein is a comrade-in-arms. We share many ideas about the creation and nature of contemporary Jewish Art, as well as a commitment to the growing Jewish Art community, exemplified by the Jewish Art Salon of which we are both founding members and curators. This exhibition of his recent work at the Kraft Center for Jewish Student Life at Columbia/Barnard gives us the crucial opportunity to examine the complex richness of his artwork.
By Tibbi Singer
While staying at a Manhattan hotel, on Friday the Israeli prime minister made a phone "to go" purchase from Pomegranate.
The exhibitions that precede Judaic auctions are rather special events for anyone who has a feeling for the fabric of Jewish life as it has been lived for the last 500 years. Not only is one afforded the opportunity to see a wide variety of Judaica, books, manuscripts and Jewish art of considerable historic importance, but if something strikes your fancy; intellectually or acquisitively, you can actually handle the objects. For most artwork the thrill is in seeing it up close and judging the brushstrokes and details of a painting or watercolor. One stands in the exact proximity as the creator did.
Bosnian immigrant Adis Meunjanin was found guilty on Tuesday of plotting to bomb New York’s subway system as an Al-Qaeda terrorist.
“Man must make the Torah manifest” in every action, speech and creative act. That is clearly the credo of Nathan Hilu, master-artist of the Lower East Side, Torah, Tanach, midrash, Gemara and beyond.