Updated: March 24, 2020.
By JTA
Ilana Friedman and her husband Arthur charged tens of thousands of dollars using the cemetery’s credit cards.
In a short span of time our shul raised and distributed thousands of dollars for relief organizations.
"We need a mayor who is not going to be confused by so many of these liberal ideas."
By JTA
A Brooklyn woman pleaded guilty to charges that she stole $1 million from a Jewish cemetery on Staten Island. Ilana Friedman, 51, admitted to grand larceny in Staten Island Supreme Court on Tuesday. Friedman, former director of the United Hebrew Cemetery, stole the money over a six-year period. Friedman and her husband, Arthur, the cemetery's […]
As of early Tuesday morning, there are numerous reports of residents trapped in their homes facing the high waters that submerged many parts of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Staten Island, and the Rockaways. The Fire Department is forced to reach those trapped by boat.
In the last five years there have been multiple Muslim plots to bomb synagogues. The NYPD is investigating bombs in synagogues, not bacon, because there really is a disturbing trend of anti-Semitic hate crimes. The best evidence that there is no similarly disturbing trend of Islamophobic attacks is that the NYPD is bagging and tagging bacon at a Staten Island football field.