Tag: New York
Mondaire Jones of New York seeks to call out anti-Semitism ‘wherever it exists’
Mondaire Jones made history on Nov. 3 as one of the first two openly gay black people elected to Congress by defeating four other candidates, including Republican Maureen Schulman, receiving 59.3 percent of the...
Cuomo orders state officials to assist Jewish day school after anti-Semitic hacking
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo ordered state officials from the Division of Human Rights and the Cyber Incident Response Team to provide assistance to the North Shore Hebrew Academy school community in the wake...
Long Island Jewish Medical Center site of one of first injections of COVID vaccine
Long Island Jewish Medical Center was a site of one of the first injections of the coronavirus vaccine in the United States on Monday.
Sandra Lindsay, an intensive-care unit nurse at the hospital in Queens,...
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...
Agudath Israel files suit in US Supreme Court to reopen synagogues amid heightened COVID...
Agudath Israel of America and two affiliated congregations have taken their lawsuit against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to the U.S. Supreme Court as they seek to overturn his closure of houses of worship...
New York’s Nicole Malliotakis seeks to be a conservative counterweight to ‘The Squad’
Despite retaining control of the U.S. House of Representatives, the Democrats saw a number of significant defeats in the Nov. 3 elections that will shrink their majority going into the 117th Congress. One of...
Federal law-enforcement charges Staten Island man for threatening Schumer, ‘blow up‘ FBI building
The U.S. Department of Justice has charged a man from Staten Island, N.Y., for threatening to kill protesters, politicians and others because of the outcome of the U.S. presidential election.
Brian Maiorana, 54, was arrested...
Pace University student government adopts universal definition of anti-Semitism
The student government at Pace University in New York City adopted the widely accepted International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism on Wednesday.
The resolution, obtained by JNS, was introduced by Eden Litvin, a student at the...
October 24th, 1935: Arthur Flegenheimer, the New York mobster known as Dutch Schultz, age...
Arthur Flegenheimer, the New York mobster known as Dutch Schultz, age 33, was gunned down by Mafia hit men on this date in 1935, supposedly for his attempt to murder prosecutor Thomas Dewey against...