An Extraordinary Account of a Hasidic Enclave. A new book, “American Shtetl,” charts how a group of ultra-Orthodox Jews created a separatist territory in upstate New York. By …The second-largest Jewish district overall, New York’s 10th on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, has 151,000 Jewish adults and is represented by longtime congressman Jerry Nadler, a Jewish Democrat.May 19, 2021 · And though the U.S. Jewish population is 92 percent white, with all other races combined accounting for 8 percent, among Jews ages 18 to 29 that rises to 15 percent. Parisians in the 14th Arrondissement, a southern neighborhood of the city, woke up on Tuesday morning to find 65 Stars of David sprayed on residential buildings. “These acts create a lot of fear ...Published Nov. 30, 2022 Updated Dec. 6, 2022. A study of skeletons unearthed from a medieval Jewish cemetery in Germany has revealed a surprising genetic split among Ashkenazi Jews of the Middle ... The 198 confirmed hate crimes against Jews in New York last year only resulted in 58 arrests. Jews are targeted in hate crimes more than any other group in New York City, by far. Black Jews in New York City comprise one of the largest communities of Black Jews in the United States. Black Jews have lived in New York City since colonial times, with organized Black-Jewish and Black Hebrew Israelite communities emerging during the early 20th century. Black Jewish and Black Hebrew Israelite communities have historically been centered in Harlem, …This possibility is the source of debates among the Jews in New York City regarding the validity of particular eruvin or any eruv. Preparation of an eruv between Oz Zion and Giv'at Asaf. In addition, the size of an eruv can be limited by a number of practical considerations. For example, the requirement that the eruv boundary be thoroughly ...Since the beginning of the 20th century, New York has had the largest Jewish urban community in world history. Three new books explore the influence of the Jews and other immigrants on the city ...Feb 29, 2024 · New York Jews. Advertisement. March 19, 2024, 1:19 pm. Man with ‘kill rabbi’ tattoo gets 25 years to life for burning rabbi’s NY home in 2019 . That changed abruptly with the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel. Reactions to the assault, and to Israel’s retaliation, have revealed a schism that many in Hollywood did not realize was there, and ...NEW YORK — There were over 250 antisemitic hate crimes reported to authorities in New York City last year, marking a steep rise in incidents targeting Jews over the past two years, according to ...In September of 1654, twenty-three Jewish refugees from Recife arrived in New York. Upon arrival, this group of Jews from Recife was not welcomed by the colony’s director-general, Peter Stuyvesant .Jan 10, 2024 · Watch: Video shows arrests over tunnel at NYC synagogue. Nine members of a New York Hasidic Jewish community have been arrested and charged over a secret tunnel that connected to a historic synagogue. Chabad messianists, in contrast to the beliefs of members of the mainstream Chabad organization, believe that the deceased Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson is the …Jews have helped shape the New Yorkiness of New York since they began immigrating from Europe in large numbers in the 19th century. But since Oct. 7, the start of the Israel …Bukharan Jews (Bukharian: ... Ensemble Shashmaqam was one of the first New York-based ensembles created to showcase the music and dance of Bukharan Jews. The Ensemble was created in 1983 by Shumiel Kuyenov, a dayereh player from Queens. Cuisine. Central Asian-style dumpling ...Some hotels were brand new; others, having fallen out of favor — and fashion — with their gentile patrons, were purchased by Jewish owners and marketed to American Jewish prospects. Where Vanderbilts, Goulds and Astors once danced, you now see “Jewish youths and maidens gyrating to jazz,” gushed the Grossmans, the new proprietors of the ...Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet is divided about whether ultra-Orthodox Jews should be required to join the Israeli army.Mar 23, 2012 · By Annie Polland and Daniel Soyer March 23, 2012 12:00 am. Advertisement. New York City’s Jews have helped shape the city and, in turn, been shaped by it ever since the 17th century, when they ... 4 days ago · New York Jets star Sauce Gardner says his ‘intentions were positive’ when he said that Jews ‘run the world’ By Jacob Gurvis March 26, 2024 9:59 pm News The Twitter thread seems to be drawing similar arguments to those published in the scientific article “New York Jews and Chinese Food: The Social Construction of an Ethnic Pattern” by Gaye Tuchman and Harry G. Levine. The 1992 article has been printed in the “Contemporary Ethnography” magazine. According to the authors, over the years ...How New York came to love Jewish delis. Christine Lehnen. 12/26/2022. In the 19th century, Jewish and European immigrants founded what would become New York's …Although there are only about 200,000 Hasidic Jews in New York, making up roughly 10 percent of the state’s Jewish population, and about 1 percent of the state’s population, few elected ...(New York Jewish Week) — In 2006, Rabbi Deborah Prinz was on a trip to Europe with her husband, Rabbi Mark Hurvitz, when they wandered into a chocolate shop in Paris.A staggering 53% of Jewish voters in New York state plan on voting for former President Donald Trump in the November election, a new Siena College poll found. Just 44% of the Chosen People in the ...A poll of registered New York voters suggests that a majority of Jews in the state intend to vote for former President Donald Trump in the presidential election in November. New York Jews now favor Trump over U.S. President Joe Biden 53% to 44%, according to the Siena College poll, released on Tuesday. …Black Jews in New York City comprise one of the largest communities of Black Jews in the United States. Black Jews have lived in New York City since colonial times, with organized Black-Jewish and Black Hebrew Israelite communities emerging during the early 20th century. Black Jewish and Black Hebrew Israelite communities have historically been centered in Harlem, …Jan 31, 2022 · Make a donation now to support independent Jewish journalism in New York. Donate SAJ’s congregation today is 270 families, its largest number in the last 10 or 15 years, according to its ... Jonah Markowitz for The New York Times. By Joseph Berger. Feb. 16, 2023. When he moved in 2014 from an apartment in Brooklyn’s Prospect Heights to a house he could afford in nearby Crown Heights ... The 198 confirmed hate crimes against Jews in New York last year only resulted in 58 arrests. Jews are targeted in hate crimes more than any other group in New York City, by far. By Phil McCausland. BBC News, New York. Nine members of a New York Hasidic Jewish community have been arrested and charged over a secret tunnel that connected to a …The kibbutz was among the places attacked on Oct. 7. About 15 meters from her hiding place, she said, she saw motorcycles, cars and trucks pulling up. She said that she saw “about 100 men ...Mar 23, 2012 · By Annie Polland and Daniel Soyer March 23, 2012 12:00 am. Advertisement. New York City’s Jews have helped shape the city and, in turn, been shaped by it ever since the 17th century, when they ... Feb 29, 2024 · New York Jews. Advertisement. March 19, 2024, 1:19 pm. Man with ‘kill rabbi’ tattoo gets 25 years to life for burning rabbi’s NY home in 2019 . Jan 11, 2024 · January 11, 2024. The Chabad Lubavitch HQ in Brooklyn in December. NIKITA PAYUSOV/Middle East Images/AFP/Getty Images. On Monday night, 10 men were arrested following a dispute with New York City ... Among those arrested by Stalin’s secret police in Dnipro was the father of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Ukrainian-born leader of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, who died in New York in 1994.Benjamin Norman for The New York Times. By Liam Stack. Nov. 20, 2022. Rabbi Rachel Timoner of Brooklyn had always cherished Israel as a haven where Jews could aspire to their highest ideals. But ...Governor Hochul made the announcement at the Center for Jewish History, making New York State the first state to respond to President Biden’s national strategy to counter antisemitism. The Governor also announced the creation of the New York State Anti-Hate in Education Center and Annual Convening that …A poll of registered New York voters suggests that a majority of Jews in the state intend to vote for former President Donald Trump in the presidential election in November. New York Jews now favor Trump over U.S. President Joe Biden 53% to 44%, according to the Siena College poll, released on Tuesday. Jews in the state said that they intend to ...By JERUSALEM POST STAFF. SEPTEMBER 7, 2010 10:14. Larry Ellison 311. (photo credit: Bloomberg) 1. Larry Ellison. Age: 66. Net worth: $28 billion. Lawrence Ellison, today ranked sixth on Forbes ...Shomrim ( Hebrew: שׁוֹמְרִים, 'watchers', 'guards') or Shmira ( Hebrew: שְׁמִירָה, 'protection') are organizations of proactive volunteer Jewish civilian patrols which have been set up in Haredi communities in neighborhoods across the United States, Canada [1] and the United Kingdom (among other countries) to combat burglary ...NEW YORK — New York Mayor Eric Adams vowed Sunday to crack down on a spate of antisemitic attacks in the city after a Jewish teen was attacked in Brooklyn on Friday …Bukharan Jews (Bukharian: ... Ensemble Shashmaqam was one of the first New York-based ensembles created to showcase the music and dance of Bukharan Jews. The Ensemble was created in 1983 by Shumiel Kuyenov, a dayereh player from Queens. Cuisine. Central Asian-style dumpling ...Jan. 9, 2024. A decades-old fight about the direction of one of New York’s most prominent Hasidic Jewish groups tipped into chaos this week, when one faction clashed with the …Elfi Hendell, whose family was forced to flee Vienna in World War II, arrived as an 11-year-old as one of 982 refugees taken in by the United States. Sara Naomi Lewkowicz for The New York Times ...Nov 3, 2023 · By Jeremy W. Peters. Nov. 3, 2023. Ross Abramson, a software engineer and recent New York University graduate, had a fairly conventional news diet until recently. He regularly checked his phone ... Jan 10, 2023 · NEW YORK — There were over 250 antisemitic hate crimes reported to authorities in New York City last year, marking a steep rise in incidents targeting Jews over the past two years, according to ... Sara Krulwich/The New York Times. By Jesse Green. Jan. 9, 2024. ... Jews who have “been in France more than a thousand years,” as one of them puts it, still sounding provisional. With violent ...Chabad messianists, in contrast to the beliefs of members of the mainstream Chabad organization, believe that the deceased Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson is the …New York City and the surrounding suburbs are home to the largest concentration of Jews in the country and because of their high birthrate — five or six children are common — Hasidic and other ...NEW YORK — It’s impossible to make a single sweeping statement about Jews in New York, and the latest show at the city’s Zach Feuer Gallery and Untitled Gallery is too smart to try. Instead ...The Israeli government expects 20,000 Ukrainian Jews to emigrate to Israel, 10 percent of the estimated Jewish population in Ukraine, and says it is also seeing a rise in applications from Russian ...Census data shows Orthodox Jewish areas of NY, NJ are among fastest growing. In New Jersey, the heavily ultra-Orthodox town of Lakewood is growing at the highest rate of any city in the state. By ...Dec 27, 2021 · A rabbi at the vanguard of egalitarian Judaism. Rabbi Marion Ruth Shulevitz, who worked as a chaplain in hospitals, nursing homes and hospice programs in New York City for 25 years, died May 1 at ... Oct. 13, 2023. New York’s Jewish community is the largest outside of Israel, and it is often polarized, particularly regarding Israel and its treatment of Palestinians. Since the brutal...(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Kathy Hochul, who will succeed Andrew Cuomo as governor of New York, is no stranger to the New York Jewish community.. Cuomo resigned Tuesday, a week ...(JTA) — The New York City area’s Jewish population is on the rise again, thanks largely to the growth of Orthodox households. The number of Jews in the city and three suburban counties jumped ...Oct. 13, 2023. New York’s Jewish community is the largest outside of Israel, and it is often polarized, particularly regarding Israel and its treatment of Palestinians. Since the brutal...In an interview in his native Brooklyn, America’s highest-ranking Jewish elected official said he felt obligated to call for new leadership in Israel. News about Jews and Judaism, including ...The joyous Jewish holiday celebrates Jews' escape from annihilation as told in the Book of Esther. A lesser-known end to the story takes on new meaning during this time of war in …(New York Jewish Week) — A dispute with a Jewish cemetery in Queens is inspiring unusual activism in New York’s Bukharian Jewish community. Leaders of the community, whose members immigrated ...NEW YORK — New York Mayor Eric Adams vowed Sunday to crack down on a spate of antisemitic attacks in the city after a Jewish teen was attacked in Brooklyn on Friday …A new generation is confronting the region’s longstanding conflict in a very different context, with very different pressures, from their parents’ and grandparents’ generations.Census data shows Orthodox Jewish areas of NY, NJ are among fastest growing. In New Jersey, the heavily ultra-Orthodox town of Lakewood is growing at the highest rate of any city in the state. By ...(New York Jewish Week) — In 2006, Rabbi Deborah Prinz was on a trip to Europe with her husband, Rabbi Mark Hurvitz, when they wandered into a chocolate shop in Paris.By Tom Norton. FOLLOW. A group of men belonging to the Hasidic Jewish community clashing with New York police over a secret tunnel discovered at a historic synagogue in Brooklyn has caught global ...Jews are gathered in front of the New York Public Library on 5th Ave. to protest anti-semitism as 'End Jew Hatred' in Manhattan of New York City, United States on October 15, 2020.While LaRue primarily appeared on stage in New York, he also traveled to European Jewish communities to perform. 4. Rabbi Sandra Lawson. Born in 1970, Sandra Lawson became the first Black and openly gay female rabbi in the world upon receiving rabbinic ordination from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Collegein 2018.The number of antisemitic incidents in New York increased by 24 percent last year to the highest level in decades, including a surge in the number of assaults, as well as both …Tamir Kalifa for The New York Times. By Emma Goldberg and Marc Tracy. Emma Goldberg and Marc Tracy talked to more than two dozen Jewish Americans, including those within the same families, about ...May 19, 2021 · And though the U.S. Jewish population is 92 percent white, with all other races combined accounting for 8 percent, among Jews ages 18 to 29 that rises to 15 percent. Parisians in the 14th Arrondissement, a southern neighborhood of the city, woke up on Tuesday morning to find 65 Stars of David sprayed on residential buildings. “These acts create a lot of fear ...The Jews of Manhattan (insofar as they have any collective representation) have an arrangement with the city of New York that stretches back over 70 years. Every 50 years, the city agrees to lease ...Although there are only about 200,000 Hasidic Jews in New York, making up roughly 10 percent of the state’s Jewish population, and about 1 percent of the state’s population, few elected ...Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. speaking at The New York Times’ New Work Summit in Half Moon Bay, California, February 29, 2016. (Kimberly White/Getty Images for New York …(New York Jewish Week) — In 2006, Rabbi Deborah Prinz was on a trip to Europe with her husband, Rabbi Mark Hurvitz, when they wandered into a chocolate shop in Paris. While meandering about the ...While LaRue primarily appeared on stage in New York, he also traveled to European Jewish communities to perform. 4. Rabbi Sandra Lawson. Born in 1970, Sandra Lawson became the first Black and openly gay female rabbi in the world upon receiving rabbinic ordination from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Collegein 2018.Since the beginning of the 20th century, New York has had the largest Jewish urban community in world history. Three new books explore the influence of the Jews and other immigrants on the city ...(JTA) — The New York City area’s Jewish population is on the rise again, thanks largely to the growth of Orthodox households. The number of Jews in the city and three suburban counties jumped ...NEW YORK — New York Mayor Eric Adams vowed Sunday to crack down on a spate of antisemitic attacks in the city after a Jewish teen was attacked in Brooklyn on Friday …
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At the New York Jewish Week, we’ve published obituaries for prominent Jewish New Yorkers who died throughout 2021, but to close out the year, we wanted to turn our attention to people who may ...Apr 26, 2022 · The number of antisemitic incidents in New York increased by 24 percent last year, according to a new report. Orthodox Jews are often targeted because of their traditional garb. A poll of registered New York voters suggests that a majority of Jews in the state intend to vote for former President Donald Trump in the presidential election in November. New York Jews now favor Trump over U.S. President Joe Biden 53% to 44%, according to the Siena College poll, released on Tuesday. Jews in the state said that they intend to ...The protest was one of a string of anti-Israel demonstrations that have taken place on a near-daily basis on New York City streets since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel, which killed 1,200 people ...Jul 21, 2022 · Rabbi Rachel Timoner, who heads Congregation Beth Elohim in Park Slope and is a co-founder of New York Jewish Agenda, a progressive Jewish group, told the New York Jewish Week that while the Torah ... February 29, 2024, 9:53 am. Lipstadt urges US Jews not to ‘go underground’ amid surging antisemitism. Antisemitism envoy tells New York crowd to ‘bring the joy’ of Judaism to …A New York Jew is a kind of universally acknowledged wizard, like a Swiss banker, an English tailor, or a Parisian couturier. Fast-talking, funny, obnoxious, able to conjure some shimmering ...New York's liberal coalition was arguably the strongest in the country, but as Joshua Zeitz shows in White Ethnic New York, his fine new book on Catholic and Jewish politics in New York City, that coalition was fragile, even in its postwar heyday.-- The Nation Provocative. . . . Zeitz provokes and challenges assumptions, thus contributing to our understanding of a …That changed abruptly with the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel. Reactions to the assault, and to Israel’s retaliation, have revealed a schism that many in Hollywood did not realize was there, and ...Jews nationwide have long been a reliable voting bloc for the Democratic Party. REUTERS. New York Jews suddenly swinging for Republicans isn’t enough for a Trump victory though, according to the ...Dec 20, 2023 · (New York Jewish Week) — In 2006, Rabbi Deborah Prinz was on a trip to Europe with her husband, Rabbi Mark Hurvitz, when they wandered into a chocolate shop in Paris. While meandering about the ... Gabriella Demczuk for The New York Times. But some Jews have been repelled by Israel’s military response, which has killed approximately 23,000, according to Gazan officials. Membership in ...A staggering 53% of Jewish voters in New York state plan on voting for former President Donald Trump in the November election, a new Siena College poll found. Just 44% of the Chosen People in the ...The Jewish Week's top stories. (Collage by Grace Yagel) (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — New York had quite a year in 2021. Amid COVID-19 variants and vaccinations, we sang along to “In the ...The second-largest Jewish district overall, New York’s 10th on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, has 151,000 Jewish adults and is represented by longtime congressman Jerry Nadler, a Jewish Democrat. An Extraordinary Account of a Hasidic Enclave. A new book, “American Shtetl,” charts how a group of ultra-Orthodox Jews created a separatist territory in upstate New York. By Gideon Lewis ... The kibbutz was among the places attacked on Oct. 7. About 15 meters from her hiding place, she said, she saw motorcycles, cars and trucks pulling up. She said that she saw “about 100 men ...Terminology Young Haredi Jews in Jerusalem, 2005. The term most commonly used by outsiders, for example most American news organizations, is ultra-Orthodox Judaism. Hillel Halkin suggests the origins of the term may date to the 1950s, a period in which Haredi survivors of the Holocaust first began arriving in America. …May 26, 2021 · A brick shattering a window of a kosher pizzeria on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Jewish diners outside a sushi restaurant in Los Angeles attacked by men shouting anti-Semitic threats. Vandalism ... .