Apr 26, 2022 · The number of antisemitic incidents in New York increased by 24 percent last year, according to a new report. Orthodox Jews are often targeted because of their traditional garb. The World Jewish Congress is the international organization that represents Jewish communities and organizations in 100 countries around the world. It advocates on their behalf towards governments, parliaments, international organizations and other faiths. ... Navigating the New Terrain of Antisemitism 19 March 2024 Read More ...By Phil McCausland. BBC News, New York. Nine members of a New York Hasidic Jewish community have been arrested and charged over a secret tunnel that connected to a …Jews have helped shape the New Yorkiness of New York since they began immigrating from Europe in large numbers in the 19th century. 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Syrian Jews first immigrated to New York in 1892. The first Syrian Jew to arrive was Jacob Abraham Dwek, along with Ezra Abraham Sitt. They initially lived on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Later settlements were in Bensonhurst, Midwood, Flatbush, and along Ocean Parkway in Gravesend, Brooklyn.Since the beginning of the 20th century, New York has had the largest Jewish urban community in world history. Three new books explore the influence of the Jews and other immigrants on the city ...Victor J. Blue for The New York Times. Rabbi Labish Becker, the executive director of Agudath Israel of America, an umbrella organization of ultra-Orthodox Jewish groups, has raised more than $2 ...Benjamin Norman for The New York Times. By Liam Stack. Nov. 20, 2022. Rabbi Rachel Timoner of Brooklyn had always cherished Israel as a haven where Jews could aspire to their highest ideals. 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Jews who have “been in France more than a thousand years,” as one of them puts it, still sounding provisional. With violent ...Tamir Kalifa for The New York Times. By Emma Goldberg and Marc Tracy. Emma Goldberg and Marc Tracy talked to more than two dozen Jewish Americans, including those within the same families, about ...Secret tunnel found under synagogue sparks riot in New York. Jewish leaders and police face off against ‘extremist students’ who were defending the passageways. Susie Coen, US Correspondent ...Elfi Hendell, whose family was forced to flee Vienna in World War II, arrived as an 11-year-old as one of 982 refugees taken in by the United States. Sara Naomi Lewkowicz for The New York Times ...A New York Jew is a kind of universally acknowledged wizard, like a Swiss banker, an English tailor, or a Parisian couturier. Fast-talking, funny, obnoxious, able to conjure some shimmering ...Jeenah Moon for The New York Times. By John Leland. Oct. 13, 2023. 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Certain neighborhoods in these cities became almost exclusively Jewish, congested and bustling with a rich, typically Jewish way of life. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel) NEW YORK — There were over 250 antisemitic hate crimes reported to authorities in New York City last year, marking a steep rise in incidents … Breaking US news, local New York news coverage, sports, entertainment news, celebrity gossip, autos, videos and photos at nydailynews.com NEW YORK — New York Mayor Eric Adams vowed Sunday to crack down on a spate of antisemitic attacks in the city after a Jewish teen was attacked in Brooklyn on Friday …Feb 9, 2024 · In recent months, she told the New York Jewish Week, her restaurant was broken into twice and was vandalized with “Free Palestine” graffiti, and has been subject to a slew of 1-star reviews on ... Fast Forward. Can you discuss a Jewish NHL player’s 50-goal season without noting his ‘insanely rich’ family? New York Republican lawmakers unveil plan to combat antisemitism ahead of budget ... Damon Casarez for The New York Times. Over the summer, Max Buchdahl, a 25-year-old second-year student at the Jewish Theological Seminary, moved into an apartment in Washington Heights, blocks ...A group of men belonging to a Hasidic Jewish community in New York were arrested on Monday amid a dispute over an illegal tunnel secretly dug into the side of a historic synagogue, which has since ...A 29-year-old Jewish man, who was attacked in a New York City gang assault said Friday that he could not understand why there was so much hate directed at him.. Joseph Borgen told CNN’s Don ...JERUSALEM — A new front opened in the military showdown between the Israeli Army and Palestinian militants in Gaza on Wednesday as a wave of mob violence between Jews and Arabs spread across ...This is a list of Jewish cemeteries in the five boroughs of New York City. Non-sectarian cemeteries in which Jews are buried are not included in this list. Acacia Cemetery, Ozone Park, Queens. Baron Hirsch Cemetery, Graniteville, Staten Island. Bayside Cemetery, Ozone Park, Queens. Beth El Cemetery (New Union Field), Ridgewood, Queens.(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — More than 50,000 people die on average every year in New York City, and with an estimated Jewish population of about 12% in the city, it’s reasonable to assume ...Damon Casarez for The New York Times. Over the summer, Max Buchdahl, a 25-year-old second-year student at the Jewish Theological Seminary, moved into an apartment in Washington Heights, blocks ...20 hours ago · Jews are also overrepresented among the powerbrokers who shaped housing in New York in the 20th century. Baum writes of the Jewish-led unions that built cooperative housing and middle-income rentals. 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Black Jews have lived in New York City since colonial times, with organized Black-Jewish and Black Hebrew Israelite communities emerging during the early 20th century. Black Jewish and Black Hebrew Israelite communities have historically been centered in Harlem, …The Jewish Week's top stories. (Collage by Grace Yagel) (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — New York had quite a year in 2021. Amid COVID-19 variants and vaccinations, we sang along to “In the ...New York's liberal coalition was arguably the strongest in the country, but as Joshua Zeitz shows in White Ethnic New York, his fine new book on Catholic and Jewish politics in New York City, that coalition was fragile, even in its postwar heyday.-- The Nation Provocative. . . . Zeitz provokes and challenges assumptions, thus contributing to our understanding of a …Chabad messianists, in contrast to the beliefs of members of the mainstream Chabad organization, believe that the deceased Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson is the …By Phil McCausland. BBC News, New York. Nine members of a New York Hasidic Jewish community have been arrested and charged over a secret tunnel that connected to a …Make a donation now to support independent Jewish journalism in New York. Donate SAJ’s congregation today is 270 families, its largest number in the last 10 or 15 years, according to its ...When a group of New York Jewish socialites invented the Purim Ball in the 1860s, their intention was to downplay Purim’s Persian legend. Their goal was to be the same, not different.Kiryas Joel (Yiddish: קרית יואל, romanized: Kiryas Yoyel, Yiddish pronunciation: [ˈkɪr.jəs ˈjɔɪ.əl]; often locally abbreviated as KJ) is a village coterminous with the Town of Palm Tree in Orange County, New York, United States.The village shares one government with the Town. The vast majority of its residents are Yiddish-speaking Hasidic Jews who belong to the worldwide … Fast Forward. Can you discuss a Jewish NHL player’s 50-goal season without noting his ‘insanely rich’ family? New York Republican lawmakers unveil plan to combat antisemitism ahead of budget ... Feb 29, 2024 · New York Jews. Advertisement. March 19, 2024, 1:19 pm. Man with ‘kill rabbi’ tattoo gets 25 years to life for burning rabbi’s NY home in 2019 . US agents have arrested 44 elected officials and Jewish rabbis in New Jersey in a huge anti-corruption sweep across the state. Charges of extortion, bribery, money laundering and human organ ...
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To be Jewish is to expand the compassion and empathy and humanity, for everyone, whether they are in DC or New York or Gaza,” she said. In December 2019, Stolzer went on a "birthright" trip to ...Census data shows Orthodox Jewish areas of NY, NJ are among fastest growing. In New Jersey, the heavily ultra-Orthodox town of Lakewood is growing at the highest rate of any city in the state. By ...February 29, 2024, 9:53 am. Lipstadt urges US Jews not to ‘go underground’ amid surging antisemitism. Antisemitism envoy tells New York crowd to ‘bring the joy’ of Judaism to …Nov 3, 2023 · By Jeremy W. Peters. Nov. 3, 2023. Ross Abramson, a software engineer and recent New York University graduate, had a fairly conventional news diet until recently. He regularly checked his phone ... JERUSALEM — A new front opened in the military showdown between the Israeli Army and Palestinian militants in Gaza on Wednesday as a wave of mob violence between Jews and Arabs spread across ... Antisemitic Hate Crimes Skyrocket in NYC Since Start of Oct. 7 War Against Israel. "By the year's end hate crimes against Jews increased by 14 percent. That's an additional 39 incidents that were ... Nov 10, 2023 · Dolly Faibyshev for The New York Times. By John Leland. Nov. 10, 2023. The police in New York City are searching for vandals who scrawled “Hamas” and antisemitic graffiti on several Upper East ... In December of that year, however, extremists professing Israelite beliefs attacked a kosher grocery store in Jersey City, New Jersey and a Hanukkah party in Monsey, New York. Two Jews were killed ...A 29-year-old Jewish man was beaten by a group of people in New York City's Times Square on Thursday evening, police said. The victim was treated for minor injuries at a local hospital and released.The protest was one of a string of anti-Israel demonstrations that have taken place on a near-daily basis on New York City streets since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel, which killed 1,200 people ...The results were surprising - according to the poll, New York Jews prefer Trump at 53 percent and Biden at 44 percent. However, in terms of congressional elections, Jews in New York maintained ... Breaking US news, local New York news coverage, sports, entertainment news, celebrity gossip, autos, videos and photos at nydailynews.com .