Tag: New York City
UN flags at half-mast in New York to honor ‘Butcher of Tehran’ Raisi
The day after critics slammed the United Nations for holding a moment of silence for the late Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash on Sunday, the global body lowered flags...
Yom Hashoah event at Columbia University part remembrance, part rally
Holocaust Remembrance Day, Yom Hashoah, generally focuses only on the slaughter of 6 million Jews without comparing it to anything else.
But a memorial ceremony marking the day on Monday in New York City near...
‘We will dance again,’ assures New York exhibit on Nova music festival
An exhibit that captures an inescapable moment in time opened in Manhattan on Sunday, affording New Yorkers the chance to experience the darkness and the light of the Nova music festival in southern Israel.
Following...
Lawsuit addresses rights violated by mandate to pay dues to anti-Israel union
Legal action will test the First Amendment question of whether or not it violates an employee’s religious freedom to mandate paying a union that has taken public positions in violation of its worker’s faith-based principles.
Jewish legal...
Columbia university president to testify about campus antisemitism
Nemat (“Minouche”) Shafik, the president of Columbia University in New York City, escaped the grilling that the leaders of Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania endured when speaking...
RJC endorses New York Rep. Nick LaLota
The Republican Jewish Coalition is backing the candidacy of Rep. Nick LaLota (R-N.Y.).
The group released a statement on Monday from Norm Coleman, a former Minnesota senator and the current RJC national chairman, and CEO...
New York radio talk-show host Sid Rosenberg visits Israel for first time
Unapologetic and unfiltered, New York conservative radio talk show host Sid Rosenberg is in Israel this week, touring the country and broadcasting his four-hour top-rated morning show "Sid & Friends in the Morning" live...
FBI said to be investigating balloons over JFK airport amid anti-Israel protests
“If anyone is flying out of JFK Airport today, please plan to travel to the airport ahead of time. There are planned protests today and will cause delays,” Philip Rivera, the NYPD chief of...
David Mamet: No ‘cozy mystery in antisemitism of Democratic Party’
In the lifetime of 75-year-old playwright David Mamet, New York City was always Jewish.
"The rhythms, the accent, the humor always felt to me like home," he wrote in the British magazine Unherd. "Because they were home. The...
Stav Festival to fuse Israeli art, stage and musical performances
The Israeli Artists Project is holding the Stav Festival, named after the Hebrew word for “fall,” from Sept. 28 through Oct. 29 in New York City.
With participation from 100-plus Israeli artists, the program offers a...