“We are all too aware that the cost of living in New York continues to rise, leading to families being priced out of neighborhoods they have called home for years,” the clergy members wrote in a letter obtained by Playbook. The opposition is only the latest blow to the measure. Last w...
Since 1982 we offer Jewish Tours through our Chassidic neighborhoods to anyone who wishes to learn more about Jewish or Chassidic life. We either walk by or walk inside of many hidden gems to see and learn about Judaism and Chassidism in history and in practice. Join our adventure through a...
abused and taken advantage upon arrival in the United States – Italian, Eastern European Jewish, Irish, Polish, and many others. Their families had come to America being drawn by stories of the streets being paved with gold, and justice and equality. But when they ...
helped to design and build many NYC buildings” while raising three children – Pauline, Beulah and Jacqueline – with his wife Miriam Slote Blumenthal whom he married in 1913. 1890: It was reported today that during December, the Unite Hebrew Charities provided assistance to 3,578 people who ...
When New York City was hit with a wave of antisemitic attacks in 2019, many of them carried out by young people, then-Mayor Bill de Blasio invested in a program that sent eighth and 10th grade public school students from heavily Orthodox neighborhoods to tour...
On a visit to Jerusalem in 2005, Rabbi Rosenberg entered into a mikvah in one of the holiest neighborhoods in the city, Mea She’arim. “I opened a door that entered into a schvitz,†he told me. “Vapors everywhere, I can barely see. My eyes adjust,...
In the meantime police have increased their presence in the Jewish neighborhoods. Moreover Shomrim, a local Jewish defense group which includes ex-Israeli military members, are actively patrolling the streets.
We have received dozens of appeals from citizens in residential neighborhoods and schools, including the Khalifa School in northern Gaza, where the occupation committed a hideous massacre that claimed the lives of dozens of martyrs and wounded who bled to death. The displaced people in the north ...
been provided, but the black family was being denied due to racism. (Clearly, not the case.) Towards the end of her outburst, she claimed that “your people treat my people differently in our community,” meaning that she feels Jews discriminate against blacks in their shared neighborhoods. ...
“The pavilion, a futuristic, three-story trapezoid with a wood-paneled event center, sunken garden and rooftop terrace in the center of the city, will serve Koreatown, which is among the city’s densest and most diverse neighborhoods. It is first, though, a community space f...