Woman Arrested for Slappings in Brooklyn Charged With Hate Crimes
BY PHILISSA CRAMER
NEW YORK (JTA) — A Brooklyn woman who made headlines for slapping three Jewish women in December — and then quickly being released from jail — has been...
Monsey Stabber Found Incompetent to Stand Trial
(JTA) — A psychiatrist has found Monsey stabber Grafton Thomas to be incompetent to stand trial on attempted murder and federal hate-crimes charges.
Defense attorney Michael Sussman has asked a...
Nadler to Miss Part of Impeachment Hearing to Care for Wife With Cancer
BY MARCY OSTER
(JTA) — Rep. Jerry Nadler, one of seven House members serving as a manager in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial in the Senate, said he would miss part...
USHMM Works to Preserve Evidence of the Holocaust
By Rochelle Miller
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. is in a race against time to collect and preserve the evidence of the Holocaust before the last...
Bus Carrying Hasidic Boys to Catskills Flips Over, Injuring 18
BY BEN SALES
NEW YORK (JTA) — A bus carrying approximately 40 teenage boys from a Hasidic town in upstate New York to a weekend retreat flipped over, injuring 18.
The incident...
Left Is to Blame for Antisemitic Violence
By Ameer Benno
In the wake of the attacks on Jews in Jersey City and Monsey, I joined 25,000 other people to march across the Brooklyn Bridge to denounce antisemitism....
Political Roundup: Nassau County Joins Climate Program
Nassau County Joins Climate Smart Communities Program
Nassau County Executive Laura Curran was joined by New York State Senator Todd Kaminsky to announce Nassau County’s participation in the New York’s...
NYC Police Release Video of Subway Swastika Vandal
Video of a man plastering a Nazi swastika symbol in a subway station on New York City’s Upper West Side was released by the NYPD on Thursday.
The incident occurred...
Ezras Nashim Recognized in NYS Capitol
On Monday, January 13, Assemblywoman Nily Rozic (D-Queens) introduced and praised a delegation of Ezras Nashim in front of the entire New York State Assembly in the Assembly Chambers...
Harlem Pop-Up Raises Awareness of Rising Antisemitism
Jew in the City, the organization dedicated to reversing negative associations about Orthodox Jews, pitched a tent on a busy Harlem street corner on Monday morning, interacting with passersby....