Tag: Brooklyn
Police search for two suspects behind violent assault on Brooklyn Jewish man
The New York Police Department is searching for two suspects who are responsible for the recent attack on a Hassidic Jewish man in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, that left the victim with lacerations to his legs...
Brooklyn resident convicted of hate crime for attacking rabbi, shouting anti-Semitic slurs
The Brooklyn Supreme Court has convicted a man of strangulation and assault as a hate crime for his 2018 attack on a rabbi in the neighborhood of East Flatbush, New York Daily News reported.
James Vincent, 44,...
Mix-up leads to wrong corona funeral in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Moshe Grunwald lived a full and long life. A scion of the Pupa Chassidic dynasty, he survived Auschwitz and the Nazi death marches, rebuilding his family and his life in America.
A longtime resident of Brooklyn,...
Brooklyn Nets warm up in shirts featuring ADL logo ‘No Place for Hate’
Prior to playing the Atlanta Hawks on Sunday night at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., the home team Brooklyn Nets warmed up in shirts that read “No Place for Hate,” featuring the Anti-Defamation League’s...
Suspect arrested in Crown Heights anti-Semitic attack
A 39-year-old man was arrested over the weekend in connection with an anti-Semitic attack that took place on Friday evening in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., just before the beginning of Shabbat.
The...
Two Jewish schools in Williamsburg closed for vaccination noncompliance
In the wake of a major uptick in the number of measles cases reported in New York City, officials have ordered the closure of two religious Jewish schools in Brooklyn until they comply with...