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The latest news from the New York Jewish Week.

Josh Kushner

Forbes cites Joshua Kushner, not his brother Jared, as the Jewish family’s first billionaire

With a net worth of $2 billion, he surpassed the fortune of his more famous brother, who was an advisor to former President Trump.

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Fed up with get refusals, Orthodox women seek changes to domestic abuse laws in New York

Activists want to make coercive control a crime in the state legislature.

Hasidic man beaten and Jewish kids threatened with weapons in latest attacks on New York City Jews

The separate and unprovoked incidents occurred in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and on the Upper West Side.

Orthodox women sue airlines after being grounded on flight home to New York

By Julia Gergely March 30, 2022 5:18 pm

Rape allegation at Yeshiva University stirs reforms — and skepticism

By Julia Gergely March 28, 2022 12:50 pm

A new book examines the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire — which a contributor worries his father might have started

By Susie Davidson March 22, 2022 10:00 am

NY rabbis bear witness to the catastrophe — and compassion — on Ukraine’s border

By Julia Gergely March 21, 2022 5:21 pm

Drones

Can drones make NYC safer? An Israeli company and its Brooklyn partner pitch the idea to Mayor Adams

By Jacob Henry March 18, 2022 3:15 pm

Barbara Broadway Coach

Slain Broadway vocal coach and ‘honorary Jew’ is mourned by the cantors she nurtured

By Jacob Henry March 16, 2022 4:50 pm

Ryan Turell

YU basketball star Ryan Turell enters NBA draft, hoping to become the league’s first Orthodox player

By Jacob Gurvis March 15, 2022 4:39 pm

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