Tag: Chassidim
Guests at New York mayor’s mansion for Jewish Heritage Month note rise in anti-Semitism
“I was ready for just about anything when I came to an Eric Adams party, but a Chassidic guy singing Billy Joel was not one of them.”
So quipped New York City Council Member Lincoln...
New York City mayor hires Chassidic senior adviser in first such appointment
New York City Mayor Eric Adams has appointed Chassidic political activist Joel Eisdorfer to be his senior adviser.
Eisdorfer is the first Chassidic Jew to ever be appointed adviser to the mayor. The Borough Park...
New York man threatens to run over Jews, local district attorney considers criminal charges
A resident of Rockland County, N.Y., may face criminal charges after making anti-Semitic remarks and appearing to threaten Jewish residents last week during a village board meeting.
During the Nov. 10 meeting of the Town...
Jewish parents lose appeal in European court to keep daughter on life support
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) rejected an appeal by the parents of a brain-damaged Jewish child trying to stop a hospital from withdrawing their daughter’s life support, reported the BBC.
ECHR upheld a British court’s ruling...
Man rams car into Chassidic group walking in Brooklyn section of Williamsburg
A 26-year-old man was arrested in New York City after he hit several Chassidic men with his car on Saturday evening after the end of Shabbat in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, N.Y.
According to...
Monsey machete-attack suspect unfit for federal trial, according to DOJ attorneys
Attorneys from the U.S. Justice Department are conceding that they may not be able to prosecute Grafton Thomas, the man accused of stabbing five people, killing one, in a December 2019 machete attack at...
Rabbi Abraham Twerski, psychologist, author and Torah scholar, dies at age 90
Rabbi Dr. Abraham Twerski, a renowned psychologist, author and Torah scholar, passed away yesterday in Israel at the age of 90.
Twerski, proudly identified as Chassidic, was strongly involved with the Chabad-Lubavitch community.
A Wisconsin native, he...
Yehuda Meshi Zahav’s crucial COVID message to fellow haredim
The triple tragedy that struck the family of one of Israel’s most righteous Jews in the course of a single month is garnering nationwide attention and sympathy. That COVID-19 caused the deaths of Yehuda...
Erdoğan confidant proposes Israel-Turkey maritime deal that cuts out Cyprus
Following years of diplomatic strife, Turkey over the weekend signaled to Israel yet again its desire for rapprochement. On Monday, former admiral Cihat Yayci, a close confidant of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, is...
Orthodox Jewish groups laud federal discrimination suit against New York village
Orthodox Jewish groups are praising the U.S. Department of Justice after it filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against the Village of Airmont in Rockland County, N.Y., claiming that its zoning laws are “discriminatory” and...