As Americans continue to debate the merits of various policies undertaken to confront the COVID-19 epidemic, Moshe Krakowski looks back on how journalists and even. . .
According to recent data from the New York Police Department, 56 hate crimes were committed against Jews in the city in February 2022—a five-fold increase. . .
While campaigning for mayor of New York City in 2013, Bill de Blasio developed important relationships with influential ḥaredi leaders, which would serve him well. . .
In the past four years, there has been increasing reason to believe that Orthodox Jewry is becoming a political force to be reckoned with, despite. . .
While there is little doubt that New York state’s governor Andrew Cuomo and New York City’s mayor Bill de Blasio have singled out Orthodox enclaves. . .
On Tuesday, New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo announced neighborhood-specific lockdowns in areas with high rates of coronavirus infection, making explicit the fact that these “red. . .
After a summer of chaos, wealthy and secular New Yorkers are fleeing in droves. Brooklyn’s Jews aren’t thrilled, but for them leaving isn’t so easy, or so desirable.
Less than two months after using Twitter to reprimand the Jewish community for violations of social-distancing regulations at a ḥasidic funeral—which occurred with permission from. . .
Last week, after a ḥasidic funeral in Brooklyn—planned in coordination with municipal authorities—attracted a large number of attendees, New York City’s Mayor Bill de Blasio. . .
On Tuesday, the funeral of a ḥasidic rabbi in Brooklyn attracted a large crowd and, despite the efforts of its organizers—in coordination with municipal authorities—the. . .
Read the major U.S. newspapers, or explicitly left-wing publications, and you will easily find stories about attacks by whites on blacks—not to mention instances of. . .
During Bill de Blasio’s tenure, New York City has seen attacks on visibly Orthodox Jews become a near-daily occurrence that the mayor has had little. . .
In 1994, the sixteen-year-old Ari Halberstam was killed when Rashid Baz opened fire with two handguns at a van carrying Ari and several other ḥasidic. . .
As the now routine attacks on ultra-Orthodox Jews in New York City and its environs have become more frequent, and far more deadly, Abigail Shrier. . .