New York

The New York Jewish Week is the home of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency’s New York coverage.

Sign up here to get a daily email with New York City Jewish news.

Nechemya Weberman Sentenced to 103 Years For Sexual Abuse

Chasidic counselor Nechemya Weberman was sentenced to 103 years in prison for sexual abuse of a teenage female patient over several years. Weberman, 54, a member of the Satmar Chasidic community in Brooklyn, did not speak during the Jan. 22 sentencing in New York State Supreme Court. He had been sent to Rikers Island prison […]

Advertisement

‘From The Depths Of Despair To The Heights Of Hope’

The story of Col. Ilan Ramon and the Torah scroll aboard Space Shuttle Columbia.

Ideas

Another Inspirational And Marred Inaugural

I have complained about Presidential Inaugurals for years, and I have finally decided to write the letter–my own, as it were, “Inaugural Address”. I love watching the inauguration of our presidents; I’m awed by the pageantry and inspired by words that invariably invoke the best of what this country is, was and strives to become. […]

Paradise In Twilight

Hearing Women Singing At The Sea

Stan Musial And Me

Honoring A Sage’s Yahrtzeit

The Real Story Behind Tu b’Shvat

Maggids For A New Age

Memo To The Next Knesset: Get To Know American Jewry

Load More

Advertisement