President Isaac HerzogHerzog blasts Mamdani’s ‘outrageous’ rhetoric on IsraelRecent developments in New York City had ‘raised a red flag’, the Israeli president saidBy Siam Goorwich1 min read
CharediCharedi child molester returns to court seeking shorter sentence in politically-charged hearingNechemya Weberman has the backing of Brooklyn’s district attorney, but his victims claim the prospect of clemency could hinder efforts to stamp out abuse in the strictly-Orthodox communityBy Jacob Jaffa3 min read
ImamNew York City imam leads Muslim student walkout of university interfaith event after row with Jewish speakerThe imam, named only as ‘Abdullah’, reportedly went from praising Allah, to advocating Sharia law, to demanding Muslim attendees leave because of the presence of a ‘Zionist’By Jamie Shapiro1 min read
MusicPunk icon Patti Smith reveals she is half JewishThe musician says in her new memoir that she discovered eight years ago her patrilineal ancestry was ‘100 per cent Ashkenazi’By Daniel Ben-David2 min read
Zohran MamdaniMamdani condemns ‘disgusting’ antisemitic graffiti in one of first tweets as New York mayorSome pro-Israel Jewish activists say his words are too little, too lateBy Siam Goorwich1 min read
Zohran MamdaniAnti-Israel Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani elected New York mayorMamdani faced allegations of antisemitism during the campaign, but pledged to ‘never waver’ in combating Jew-hateBy Jacob Jaffa2 min read
AntisemitismSelf-proclaimed ‘Jew-hater’ jailed over assault at anti-Israel protestTarek Bazrouk was accused of targeting Jews at protests in the city over the course of 2024 and 2025By Jamie Shapiro1 min read
Jewish family sues NYC’s Met Museum over ‘secretly trafficked’ Nazi-looted van GoghThe oil painting, called ‘Olive Picking’, was left behind when the Stern family fled Germany in the 1930sBy Jamie Shapiro1 min read||October 29, 2025 17:16
Jewish man hospitalised in New York City attackRami Glickstein was on his way to a kosher restaurant in the heart of the city when the attacker reportedly approached him pointing at his kippahBy Jamie Shapiro1 min read||October 28, 2025 16:42
Cornell student paper retracts cover art featuring ‘Holocaust inversion’ imageThe illustration depicted a bloodied Star of David with a Nazi symbol in the centre carved into the back of a Palestinian womanBy Jacob Jaffa1 min read||October 28, 2025 14:46
More than 800 US rabbis sign open letter opposing NY mayoral frontrunner Mamdani‘We will not accept a culture that treats... Jewish inclusion as something to be “granted”.’By Siam Goorwich1 min read||October 24, 2025 11:11
By Jonathan HarounoffGlobalising the Intifada on Sixth AvenueAs the favourite to be New York’s next mayor equivocated on Gaza, the city he hopes to govern became the stage for a grotesque display of Hamas glorification3 min read||October 9, 2025 11:20
More than 30 years after Crown Heights riots, Orthodox Jews face a new threat from their ‘anti-Zionist’ neighboursSince October 7, ‘anti-Zionist’ activist groups targeting Jewish landlords have sprung up across BrooklynBy Eliana Silver5 min read||August 19, 2025 15:18
Activists arrested at Jewish group’s pro-Palestine protest at President Trump’s New York hotelThe protesters from IfNotNow gathered outside the building to call for an end to Israel’s “ethnic cleansing” of GazaBy Jamie Shapiro2 min read||August 5, 2025 11:42
AJC to donate £19,000 to help rebuild Gaza church damaged by IDF shrapnelThe advocacy group has said it will give the money to the Archdiocese of New York to help pay for repairs of Gaza’s Holy Family ChurchBy Jamie Shapiro1 min read||August 4, 2025 13:35
Second Jewish victim of New York City shooting named as 27-year-old Julia HymanThe Rudin management employee was working on the 33rd floor when the shooter opened fireBy Jamie Shapiro2 min read||July 30, 2025 11:57
