FashionFlamboyant New York fashion icon Iris Apfel dies aged 102The colourful trendsetter found fame in her 80s with the ‘more is more, and less is a bore' mantraBy Rosa Doherty2 min read
USANew York schools pushing anti-Zionism have Jewish teachers wondering if they have a future‘Teachers are abusing their access to children to peddle their own agenda’By Ben Clerkin3 min read
usaJewish widow gifts free tuition to all students at New York medical schoolThe $ 1 billion dollar gift will allow the Albert Einstein College of Medicine to give free tuitionBy Ben Clerkin1 min read
Chabad‘Am Israel Chai’ broadcast in Times Square as 3,000 Jewish teens show solidarityThe event, organised by Chabad, brought together young people from more than 50 countriesBy JC Reporter1 min read
Donald TrumpMajority of New York Jewish voters intend to vote for Trump says new pollJews have overwhelmingly voted for Democratic presidents for more than 100 yearsBy Andrew Bernard1 min read
USA PoliticsFormer IDF soldier loses House election to DemocratMazi Pilip, an Ethiopian Jew in Israel was running to replaced disgraced congressman George SantosBy Ben Clerkin1 min read
New YorkMore than 75% of US Jews feel less safe after October 7 attacksA quarter of American Jews also reported having been the target of an antisemitic remark, vandalism or physical attackBy Andrew Bernard3 min read
Ritchie Torres: I won’t back down to threats over my support for IsraelIn an exclusive interview with the JC, the Democrat congressman reveals what it’s like being on the front line of the battle for Western values and facing pushback from his opponentsBy Ben Clerkin6 min read||February 6, 2024 14:14
Anti-Israel protestors harass mourners at Henry Kissinger memorialPolice were called to deal with around 100 demonstrators who targeted the temple Emanu-El in ManhattanBy Ben Clerkin1 min read||January 26, 2024 23:12
NY principal tells teachers to attend event about ‘genocide on Gaza’Headteacher Terri Grey urged teachers to attend the eventBy Ben Clerkin1 min read||January 25, 2024 20:10
A 35-foot challah in NYC aims to beat Guinness World RecordThe lengthy loaf, made in collaboration by Jewish organisations as part of a Shabbat initiative, could break the 2019 recordBy Eliana Jordan1 min read||January 24, 2024 13:23
How Zabar’s became a New York Jewish institution without ever being kosherTo thousands of New York Jews, the Upper West Side grocery store is an institution that epitomises Jewish NYCBy Anna Rahmanan3 min read||January 15, 2024 17:18
Giant Brooklyn mural depicts Israeli-Palestinian friendshipChildren embrace amid war and terror in new street artBy Jane Prinsley1 min read||January 12, 2024 16:28
Chabad tunnelers reportedly employed Mexican labourers to digExtreme yeshiva students are said to have moved dirt from their synagogue in their pocketsBy Felix Pope1 min read||January 11, 2024 21:12
Chabad’s tunnel disagreement is part of a schism that goes back decadesThe recent disagreement is part of a long-running dispute over whether the Rebbe was the MessiahBy Simon Rocker2 min read||January 10, 2024 15:02
The best memes of the Chabad New York tunnel incidentThe JC rounded up some of the internet’s finest comedic reactions to the story of the illegal excavation at Chabad HQ in NYCBy Eliana Jordan2 min read||January 10, 2024 14:25
