The latest news from the New York Jewish Week.
JTA — The man accused of a stabbing attack at a rabbi’s home in Monsey, New York, that left an elderly man in a coma pleaded not guilty to federal hate crimes charges. Grafton Thomas, 37, appeared Monday in federal court in White Plains. A federal grand jury last week ordered his indictment on hate crimes charges for […]
JTA — The two Jersey City kosher store shooters were carrying a bomb in the van they were using that had enough firepower to kill or wound people in an area the size of five football fields. Federal officials on Monday also said that David Anderson and Francine Graham had enough materials to make a second […]
TEANECK, N.J. (JTA) — Jason Greenblatt, President Donald Trump’s former Middle East negotiator, made his first public speech since leaving the White House on Sunday night. Greenblatt, 52, who worked as a lawyer for Trump for two decades prior to joining the administration, spoke at Congregation Keter Torah in Teaneck, New Jersey, the Modern Orthodox synagogue where […]