Posts Tagged: New York Jews
New York Sanitation Workers Help Brooklyn Jewish Group Find Lost Tefillin
New York City Sanitation Department employees helped a group of Brooklyn residents search for hours through heaps of garbage to find a pair of tefillin...
New York Gov. Cuomo Bans Wedding of Satmar Jews, Expected to Draw 10,000 People
i24 News - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo ordered the cancellation of a large ultra-Orthodox wedding that was set to take place in Williamsburg after...
Jewish Congregations Challenge ‘Blatantly Antisemitic’ New York Coronavirus Restrictions
Three Jewish congregations on Thursday filed a lawsuit claiming that New York's coronavirus restrictions on public gatherings violated their First Amendment religious rights under the US Constitution. The...
New York City Parents Scramble to Deal With New School Closures as COVID-19 Resurges
The 6-year-old son of Jodi Cook, a Brooklyn mother of two, had just resumed in-person classes at his local elementary -- only to face the...
Cuomo Threatens to Shutter Synagogues Ahead of Meeting With Chassidim on COVID Spike
JNS.org – New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that he will meet with leaders of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community on Tuesday in the hopes of...
New York City Orthodox Jewish School Cancels Classes After Suspected Coronavirus Case
An Orthodox Jewish school in New York City canceled classes on Tuesday to allow for precautionary measures after a suspected case of coronavirus turned up within its...
The History of Antisemitism in New York
America's long suspicion of New York City as a hotbed of irreligion, immoral culture, and the Jewish community there can obstruct the fact that Jews...
Antisemitism in Williamsburg During the 1950s and ’60s
My name is Yisroel Ephraim Hakohain Weiss. I am a Jew who grew up in a home where I was told at a very young...
Witness: Security Guards, Bystanders Ignored Brutal Assault on Hassidic Jew in Midtown Manhattan
A Hassidic Jew who was assaulted in the lobby of a New York City office building on Monday said security guards and witnesses in the...
New York Shoppers Outraged by Sale of Nazi Memorabilia at Manhattan Flea Market
A flea market vendor selling Nazi memorabilia in Manhattan is outraging offended shoppers, the New York Post reported on Monday. “It’s very bad, awful, horrible,” said...
New York Jewish Bookstore Manager Beaten by Self-Declared Muslim Yelling ‘F*** You Jews’
The manager of a Jewish bookstore on the Upper West Side of Manhattan was beaten up Monday afternoon by a self-declared Muslim man who threatened to kill him,...
The Iran Deal Does New York
JNS.org - The July 14 announcement of a nuclear deal between Iran and world powers has drawn much public criticism, praise, and punditry—in the Jewish community...
Jewish Neighborhood is New York’s Baby Capital: ‘Our Community is Making Up for the Rest of the City’
The heavily ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Borough Park is New York's "baby capital," a recent survey of births across the city published by the New...
Yom Kippur Brings Break-Fast Anticipation for New York Jews
New York Post - The Yom Kippur fast may start Friday at sundown, but New York Jews have been salivating about their Saturday night break-fast...
