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.

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.

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.

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

United States

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

Ideas

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

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

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

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

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

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