Brooklyn
Bamba blankets NYC after Park Slope Food Coop vote to boycott Israeli products. What’s next?
Four thousand free bags of the Israeli peanut butter-flavored snack made their way Sunday along the Celebrate Israel Day Parade route up Fifth Avenue, passed around by volunteers.
Jewish group files cease and desist order against Park Slope Food Co-op for its Israel boycott
Mamdani to appoint anti-Israel JVP rabbi to taxpayer-funded city hall faith liaison role
White supremacist leader sentenced to 15 years in prison for plot to poison NYC Jewish kids
New York City marks 30 years since deadly antisemitic attack on Brooklyn Bridge
The incident took years to be classified as a terror attack, but advocacy by a victim's mother led to the passage of New York State's first counter-terrorism laws.
Living among celebs: Ed Sheeran vacates expensive Brooklyn apartment
The deluxe 300sq.m. apartment returns to market with a slight price bump.
Pro-Palestinian protesters call for ceasefire at Grand Central Terminal
The demonstration, organized by the anti-Zionist organization Jewish Voice for Peace, was but one of many anti-Israel protests in NYC in the past week.
Jewish NYC lawmaker Inna Vernikov arrested after carrying gun to pro-Palestinian protest
New York State Gov. Kathy Hochul said, “New York’s gun safety laws apply to everyone.”
US Gay man stabbed to death in hate crime for dancing to Beyonce
One of O'Shae Sibley's friends, who witnessed the attack and tried to save him, said “they murdered him because he’s gay, because he stood up for his friends.”
New Yorkers march in solidarity with Israeli protesters
The march over the Brooklyn Bridge was part of a global solidarity movement that has flourished in the city with the most Israelis outside of Israel.
Former head of Jewish security patrol in Brooklyn pleads guilty to sex crime involving a teenager
The guilty plea comes more than five years after Daskal was first arrested and charged with sex crimes related to the alleged abuse of a girl.
ADL offering $50,000 reward for tips on 1994 NYC murder
Ari Halberstam, 16, was murdered on the Brooklyn Bridge in 1994 by Rashid Baz, who also fired upon 14 other Jewish teens in a van.
Jewish journalist sues bar for refusing to serve him
Conservative journalist Elad Eliahu, 29, was reportedly on a first date last month in Brooklyn when a bartender allegedly told him to leave while calling him a "Zionist fascist."
Six NYC Council members reject establishment of 'End Jew Hatred Day'
Among those on the 51-member council who did not support the measure was Shahana Hanif, a representative of the heavily Jewish Brooklyn neighborhoods of Borough Park and Park Slope.
