Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez today announced that a Crown Heights man has been sentenced to 24 years to life in prison for the kidnapping and murder of Williamsburg businessman Menachem Stark during a botched abduction in 2014.
Mayor Bill de Blasio, in addressing a press conference Tuesday on the increase in hate crimes in New York City under his watch, said, “I think the ideological movement that is anti-Semitic is the right-wing movement.”
A violent Jewelry heist on a Jewish a Jewish store in Paris was caught on camera Wednesday morning. The entire event, from the entrance to the thieves being caught was documented by surveillance camera and bystanders.
In heart stopping footage, a Jewish toddler was saved after he rode his tricycle into a busy street. A quick thinking driver reacted and averted a disaster.
Protesting Israel at the Israel Day Parade in Manhattan has become a yearly occurrence for a group of Neturei Karta activists. This year, a hard hitting video reporter decided to ask a simple question, one you would imagine would have an easy answer. Watch through the stuttering and incoherent response, before the admission that he does not believe they are a terrorist organization.
Semion Rosenfeld, the “last known survivor” of the Nazi death camp Sobibor, has died aged 96, the quasi-governmental Jewish Agency said Monday.
The number of hate crimes reported to the New York Police Department this year is nearly double the number reported in 2018 during the same period – and most incidents are anti-Semitic.
There has been yet another hate crime in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The latest incident occurred on Wednesday, when two black teens riding on bikes attacked an Orthodox Jewish man walking on Flushing Ave & Nostrand Ave.
When Mitchell Leshchiner, 14, walked across the stage of his middle school graduation Tuesday, not only was he proudly wearing his graduation robe and the medals he earned for his various school accomplishments — on this special day he also decided to wear a kippah.
Ukrainian Airlines seems to have intentionally profiled Orthodox Jewish passengers on a flight this week, in what looks like an inside job to rob them blind.
An Eruv built in parts of Staten Island has been taken down. The controversy started when residents of Westerleigh noticed thin gray PVC pipes were put up on utility poles around the neighborhood. The eruv was put up by a group of Orthodox Jews without approval from Con Ed, Verizon, or the Transportation Department.
A special ceremony was held Monday morning to mark the sheloshim (end of thirty days of mourning) of Mrs. Lori Kaye Hy”d, who was killed in the attack on the Chabad of Poway.
A family of five, parents and their three children, who went missing in the Kinneret (Sea of Galilee) was located overnight Sunday after several hours of searches.
A group of teenaged yeshivah students in Boston saved a man with a swastika from drowning in the Chestnut Hill Reservoir in Boston last week, according to a report by NBC10 Boston.
The rabbi of Berlin, Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal, on Sunday morning urged Jews to continue to wear kippot with pride, after a German government official advised that Jews not wear kippot “everywhere, all the time.”
Germany’s government commissioner on anti-Semitism has warned Jews about the potential dangers of wearing the traditional kippah skullcap in the face of rising anti-Jewish attacks.
Just in Time for Lag B’Omer, well loved singer Mordechai Ben David has released a new single titled “Kdai Hu Rabbi Shimon.”
