By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The 2024 Republican nominee for the White House will reportedly schmooze and nosh at Gottlieb's kosher restaurant.
A mother and her three children missed being hit by just a few seconds.
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 an effort to bring down wedding costs, the Bobov-45 Rebbe gave new wedding ceremony guidelines his followers.
By JNi.Media
His DNA was found on the heel of the victim’s sneaker, which was found on the roof of a nearby building.
To be sure, the Times in 2008 reported on a controversy at Harvard over its having set separate gym hours for Muslim women. But it did not editorialize about it.
By JNi.Media
The problem is that by reducing the number of vaccinated children, the community at large is exposed to a greater risk.
By JNi.Media
The ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities of Crown Heights, Williamsburg and Borough Park, Brooklyn are experiencing an outbreak of Pertussis—also known as whooping cough
By JNi.Media
Here’s a good reason to like your new mayor: he, or, rather, his police dept., doesn’t fine you as much as it used to.
It is questionable if anti-Semitism really is not on the rise in the United States. It really is the same as it was 100 years ago, but more overt instead of covert.
By JTA
The “perfect” etrog actually has one big non-Halachic blemish – it is not grown in Israel.
By JTA
New York City has dropped a lawsuit against Hasidic-owned stores that posted a dress code for shoppers. The New York City Human Rights Commission reached a settlement with the seven Hasidic-owned shops in a lawsuit the city had filed alleging that the stores’ posted dress codes implied gender and religious discrimination, according to the New […]
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 […]
What originally seems like fun can quickly turn into a buzz kill.
By Daniel Pipes
As Netanyahu appears to be making excessive and immoral concessions to the Palestinian Authority, Danon has emerged as a leading dissident ready to challenge his prime minister
Swift NY cops jump on a young Jewish woman for an immodest frisk. Her crime? Maybe she was picking up drugs? Or running away from a robbery? No. She was petting a cat – and she is suing the police.
When is a dress code legal and when it is a violation of human rights? That seems to depend on whether you are a Chasidic Jewish shop owner in New York.
I personally see no problem with what Satmar did. They lobbied for the land and they got it. Black and Latino leaders could have done the same.
Anti-Semitic vandals torched more than 10 mezuzahs on the doorposts in the Williamsburg district of Brooklyn apartments Monday, Holocaust Remembrance Day. It is not known if the attack was carried by an individual or a group. The attacks took place on at least 10 different floors. New York police are considering the arson as an […]
Once the children were grown, my aunt decided to give love and care to many lonely, elderly Jewish women in Williamsburg.
Williamsburg, New York Haredim have finally convinced Columbia Pictures to halt filming of "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" in order not to cause parking problems during the Passover holiday. "We expressed the importance for Spider-Man to pass-over filming during Passover and they have answered our call," City Councilman Stephen Levin wrote on his blog. "Reducing the […]
Julio Acevedo was arraigned in state Supreme Court in Brooklyn and was ordered held without bail.
Nachman Glauber’s rabbi told him to rush his wife to the hospital on the Sabbath after she said did not feel her unborn baby moving. The couple was killed in a crash. The baby was later delivered.
The vast majority of the rabbis of the Williamsburg community backed Weberman from the time of his arrest.