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It is the second weekend in a row that someone has attacked Jews in the area.

The charges include reckless endangerment as a hate crime, criminal possession of a weapon, conspiracy, aggravated harassment and endangering the welfare of a child.

He was once arrested for punching a police horse.

An old, heavy coffee-table transformed into a beautiful dreidel-shaped menorah stand now sits not far from the bimah at the shul where, one year ago, a terrorist stormed into the house of the community’s Rabbi hoping to kill as many Jews as he could.

Updated: March 23, 2020.

Updated: March 24, 2020.

Gov. Phil Murphy favors gun control, but it's doubtful he would veto this exceedingly restrained and reasonable bill.

Thomas could be charged with murder, which is punishable by death under US law.

The federal charges could lead to a death penalty charge against Thomas if Josef Neumann, 72, who is comatose with a fractured skull from the attack, dies, God forbid.

License-plate readers will be installed on street lights, street poles, highway overpasses, mobile trailers and police squad cars.

“Thank G-d, I had the presence of mind to go after him to his car. I got his license plate and that’s how he was caught so quickly.”

“The 1.5 million Jews of our great city and region will not stand down. We will not be intimidated.”

JTA invited Shimon Rolnitzky, writer, activist and Chassidic resident of Monsey, New York to sing a post-pogrom kumbaya.

"I deeply appreciate the recent remarks of Pope Francis, that anti-Jewish persecution is neither human nor Christian, as well as the statements of other Christian leaders against rising anti-Semitism."

Meanwhile, on Sunday, Police in Highland Park in Middlesex County, New Jersey, investigated graffiti found outside the Ahavas Achim synagogue.

A Holocaust doesn’t just happen one, two, three. A Holocaust doesn’t begin with Auschwitz. It ends there!

A black attacker armed with a machete on Saturday night stabbed five Jews at Rabbi Chaim Rottenberg's home at 49 Forshay Rd in Monsey,...

Security footage from the area has verified the victim’s account. Ramapo Police have launched an investigation.

Haredi Rabbi Hillel Handler announced: “We Hasidim have been chosen as the target,” and, “The campaign against us has been successful.”

According to Diardio de Chiapas, Helbrans' group of about 40 ultra-Orthodox Jewish families entered Chiapas three weeks ago legally from Guatemala, after having been expelled.

The Vizhnitzer Rebbe, Rabbi Mordechai Hager, shlita, has been hospitalized at Mt. Sinai Medical Center.

There was an obvious appearance of prejudice – even if there wasn’t any in actuality.

Many Jewish women suffer as “agunahs,” unable to re-marry because their husbands refuse them divorces. Four Jews, two of them rabbis, allegedly took the law into their hands and beat husbands until they agreed.

Racial tensions in the New York town of Ramapo, near Monsey, flared Wednesday when two men and a women were arrested for firing a...

It’s really not that different than the situation in Israel with the charedim. Both situations need insiders to make the change happen.

An Orthodox Jewish woman from Monsey, N.Y. is suing the Lancome cosmetics firm, claiming that its 24-hour makeup does not last as long as...

Each individual Jew should put his life in line with the goal of Clal Israel and not just live a private, ritual Judaism, practicing personal precepts, stripped of our national essence.