New York

Jay Kriegel, adviser to successive New York mayors, dies at 79

A multi-tasking workaholic, the former chief of staff to Mayor John Lindsay set up the city’s Civilian Complaint Review Board.

By Cnaan Liphshiz December 6, 2019 7:02 am

Ideas

I have been fighting for ultra-Orthodox students for nearly a decade. New York’s new regulations are vital for them.

Even some non-Hasidic yeshivas are starting to cut corners on secular education. That’s why the state must intervene, writes an advocate to improve Hasidic education.

November 15, 2019 12:08 pm

Stickers and posters described as anti-Semitic found at suburban NY Holocaust memorial

Graffiti also was written on a sign at the Garden of Remembrance in White Plains on the eve of Yom Kippur.

October 10, 2019 4:22 am

Jewish man and teen son stabbed with box cutter outside Brooklyn synagogue

By Marcy Oster September 3, 2019 11:38 am

2nd assault this week against Orthodox Jewish man reported in Crown Heights

By Cnaan Liphshiz August 30, 2019 10:43 am

Ideas

Should we have laughed at this joke about New York Jews?

By Hannah Lebovits August 12, 2019 4:06 pm

Housing developers sue New York officials for trying to keep out Hasidic Jews

By Marcy Oster July 28, 2019 11:13 am

New York police say hate crimes nearly doubled in 2019. Nearly two-thirds are anti-Semitic.

By Cnaan Liphshiz May 31, 2019 11:42 am

NY Mayor de Blasio calls BDS ‘unacceptable’ in a speech on anti-Semitism

By Cnaan Liphshiz February 15, 2019 10:55 am

Nazi-themed posters hung at New York’s Purchase College

By Marcy Oster December 11, 2018 7:12 am

Sections

Trending Topics

New York

Jay Kriegel, adviser to successive New York mayors, dies at 79

I have been fighting for ultra-Orthodox students for nearly a decade. New York’s new regulations are vital for them.

Stickers and posters described as anti-Semitic found at suburban NY Holocaust memorial

Jewish man and teen son stabbed with box cutter outside Brooklyn synagogue

2nd assault this week against Orthodox Jewish man reported in Crown Heights

Should we have laughed at this joke about New York Jews?

Housing developers sue New York officials for trying to keep out Hasidic Jews

New York police say hate crimes nearly doubled in 2019. Nearly two-thirds are anti-Semitic.

NY Mayor de Blasio calls BDS ‘unacceptable’ in a speech on anti-Semitism

Nazi-themed posters hung at New York’s Purchase College

Get JTA in your inbox

Get JTA in your inbox

Get JTA in your inbox