Tag: New York

“We need a more visible police presence in at-risk neighborhoods, and need to build stronger educational frameworks and closer relationships with those in the broader community,” said Gideon Taylor, CEO of the Jewish Community Relations Council-New York.

A delegation of 12 disabled IDF veterans took off for New York last week in the framework of a special tour sponsored by the humanitarian organization Belev Echad.

Peres lived with his wife Sonia and their daughter in an apartment on the corner of West 95th Street and Riverside while he studied at New York University and the New School.

Riots and looting broke out around the country in response to the not guilty verdict.

James Vincent, 44, was found guilty on Wednesday of randomly attacking Rabbi Menachem Moskowitz, 52, and shouting anti-Semitic slurs as he tried to strangle the victim.

They're all expected to come out of the ordeal in good health, God willing.

Mohammed Othman, 24, is being charged with three separate hate-crime assaults.

“The Flatbush Jewish community, our leadership, residents, yeshivah leaders, parents and business owners all agree that, for our community, the No. 1 issue in the election was public safety,” said community leader Chaskel Bennett.

The group allegedly knocked Joseph Borgen to the ground and then punched, kicked, pepper-sprayed and beat him with crutches while making anti-Semitic remarks.

The money will help increase supply to a food pantry for low-income New Yorkers; provide Jewish summer-camp scholarships for children impacted by COVID-19; and create a center for preschoolers who need physical, occupational and speech therapy.

“I’m ready to go all-in on this mission and bring New York back from the brink and return it to glory,” said the congressman from Long Island.

He was once arrested for punching a police horse.

New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang said he has an issue with organizations that don’t disavow “very, very violent tactics” towards Israel, though he doesn’t have an issue with individuals or activists “making a case for what they think is right.”

Only 3% of New Yorkers will actually get to choose the next mayor in the coming primaries this June.

Also, according to court records, local officials were considering hanging outside the camp a “big sign up there with a swastika,” or inviting “skinheads” to pay the Oorah folks a visit.

He observed that "too many essential products are made in China, [which] we must [produce] in the United States and even here in New York."

The Division of Human Rights is expected to hold a virtual forum for families discuss the incident and learn about resources to combat hate.

Republican New York State Assembly Member Nicole Malliotakis got 57.9 percent of the vote; Rose, a Democrat, received 42.1 percent.

Jewish leaders and groups, specifically the ultra-Orthodox community, have sharply criticized the two leaders for their enforcement of coronavirus restrictions amid a spike in cases.

The governor related that one of his daughters had to give up her college-graduation ceremony because of the pandemic.

The wedding ceremony was planned in two venues, one on Rodney Street and another on nearby Bedford Avenue, the locations of a Satmar synagogue and a yeshiva.

NY State’s worst "cluster" is in the mostly-Satmar town of Kiryas Joel in Orange County, where 19% of the tests Monday came back positive.

Howard Slugh of the Jewish Coalition for Religious Liberty said the First Amendment applies to everyone unless the government has a compelling interest to restrict religious gatherings.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is “accelerating” the process, but at 25 percent capacity and only in areas that have entered “phase 2” of the state’s reopening from the coronavirus shutdown.

Now, normally, children are not allowed to be outside in close proximity of one another and without face masks, but this was a protest rally, which has its own protections under the law.

Of course, should push come to shove and the prince is made to face a US court, Prince Edward could always hire Alan Dershowitz.

There have been numerous inquiries about going to the Mikvah or to a Minyan for Maariv...

List of locations where the New York City Department of Education is providing free meals available daily for any New Yorker.

"“When you wear a mask, you say, ‘I respect you. I respect your health. And out of respect for you I wear this mask.'"

The arrivals from the United States included a number of "super infectors" – individual patients who travel to many locations in country, do not obey the guidelines and contribute to mass infection.