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Haredim & Hassidim / NY / Elections / News Briefs

Trump to Visit Heavily Jewish NYC Neighborhood of Williamsburg

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

The 2024 Republican nominee for the White House will reportedly schmooze and nosh at Gottlieb's kosher restaurant.

Haredim & Hassidim / NY / Video of the Day

Mother & 3 Children Missed by Skidding Car in Williamsburg

By Jewish Press News Desk

A mother and her three children missed being hit by just a few seconds.

NY / Police and Crime / Antisemitism

Official Welcomes Installing of 100 Cameras in NY in Response to Anti-Semitic Attacks, Calls for More Action

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.

Haredim & Hassidim

Bobov-45 Rebbe Announces New Wedding Rules, Chassidim To Save Thousands Of Dollars

By Jewish Press Staff

In an effort to bring down wedding costs, the Bobov-45 Rebbe gave new wedding ceremony guidelines his followers.

Haredim & Hassidim / NY / Police and Crime / The Courts / News Briefs

Mayer Herskovic Accused of Leading Beating of Brooklyn Black Gay Man

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.

Editorial

The Times Detects A ‘Strong Odor’ In Williamsburg Controversy

By Editorial Board

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.

Jewish / NY / Politics / News Briefs / Health and Medicine / Religion

75 Children Contract Chickenpox in Williamsburg Outbreak, Failure to Inoculate Cited

By JNi.Media

The problem is that by reducing the number of vaccinated children, the community at large is exposed to a greater risk.

Haredim & Hassidim / NY / News Briefs / Health and Medicine

109 Whooping Cough Cases over 12 Months in Brooklyn Ultra-Orthodox Communities

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

Haredim & Hassidim / NY / Police and Crime / News Briefs

Hasidim Love Mayor de Blasio: Fewer Traffic Tickets

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.

Haredim & Hassidim / US / Antisemitism / News Briefs

Wave of Hate Crimes against Jews in Brooklyn's Williamsburg Area

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

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.

Haredim & Hassidim / NY / News Briefs / Holidays & Observances / Judaism

New York, High-End Dealers Cater To Jews Seeking The Perfect Etrog

By JTA

The “perfect” etrog actually has one big non-Halachic blemish – it is not grown in Israel.

Jewish / NY

NYC Drops Suit against Hasidic Stores over Dress Code

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 […]

Jewish / NY / News Briefs

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 […]

Op-Eds

Kill the Quest for 'Chill'

By Mrs. Amber Adler

What originally seems like fun can quickly turn into a buzz kill.

Daniel Pipes / The Lion's Den

The Right Moment for Israel's Danny Danon?

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

Jewish / US / Politics / News Briefs

New Jersey Jewish Student Sues NY Cops over Immodest Frisk

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

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.

Jewish / NY / News Briefs / Religion

NY Officials Claim Chasidic Dress Code Violates Human Rights

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

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.

Emes Ve-Emunah

Solving One Problem, Sort of...

By Harry Maryles

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.

NY / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Holocaust

Brooklyn Anti-Semites Mark Holocaust Day by Burning Mezuzahs

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

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 […]

Op-Eds / Obituaries

My Tanta Shirley's Enterprise

By Tzippy Clapman

Once the children were grown, my aunt decided to give love and care to many lonely, elderly Jewish women in Williamsburg.

Haredim & Hassidim / NY / News Briefs / Religion / Local

Spider-Man Makes Exodus from Williamsburg for Passover

By Jewish Press News Desk

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 […]

NY / News Briefs

Satmar Couple Killer Charged in NY

By Jewish Press Staff

Julio Acevedo was arraigned in state Supreme Court in Brooklyn and was ordered held without bail.

Jewish / NY / News Briefs / Local

Satmar Couple Killed in Motzei Shabbat Car Crash; Unborn Baby Survives (Video)

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

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.

NY / Police and Crime / News Briefs / Religion

Chemicals Thrown in Face of Williamsburg Rabbi Who Supports Sex Abuse Victims

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

The vast majority of the rabbis of the Williamsburg community backed Weberman from the time of his arrest.

Serials

Getzlight - Chapter I

By Ruchama Feuerman

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