(JTA) — A newly graduated New York City firefighter who had quit as an EMT after his racist and anti-Semitic tweets came to light was transferred out of a heavily Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Brooklyn after just one day. Joseph Cassano, the son of a former fire commissioner, worked Monday at a Borough Park station, but the…
Jackie Martinez was just trying to do a boomerang. Inside the converted firehouse on a sunny yet chilly Friday morning earlier this month, Martinez, an FDNY firefighter, jumped up in front of a poster featuring an image of herself, as her family and friends and fellow firefighters snapped photos and laughed. On the poster, she…
(JTA) —A newly graduated New York City firefighter who quit his job as an EMT five years ago after racist and anti-Semitic tweets came to light, has been assigned to a firehouse in the heart of an Orthodox Jewish community. Joseph M. Cassano, 28, once tweeted “I like Jews about as much as hitler.” He…
— A former volunteer firefighter from Southern California is suing his former department alleging anti-Semitism and harassment. Jared Hartstein, 27, of Irvine, worked for the volunteer fire department in La Habra Heights from June 2015 until he resigned on Dec. 21 that year. Hartstein alleged in interviews with the local media that senior firefighters made…
A New York City firefighter killed in a weekend blaze earned accolades in the Satmar Hasidic community for saving a 7-year-old boy’s life just weeks before his tragic death in a Brooklyn public housing high-rise. Lt. Gordon “Matt” Ambelas was among the firefighters who rescued Mendy Gotlieb after the Satmar boy’s head and arm were…
New scientific and academic studies of climate change—its causes, pace, cost, impact—continue to pour out almost daily from institutions around the world. They come at us so fast that it’s hard to keep track—and yet many of them are essential to understanding what’s coming down the pike and what, if anything, can be done about…
Joining the grief felt across the Southwest, the Phoenix Jewish community last week held a solemn tribute to the nineteen Arizona firefighters who perished on June 30, the Jewish News of Greater Phoenix reported Batsheva and Hofit Hayat, the mother and widow of Israeli firefighter Danny Hayat, who died battling forest fires in Mount Carmel…
With a one-hour meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert yesterday. As we covered back in January, the former New York City mayor is duking it out with Arizona Senator John McCain for Jewish donors. Looks like he shouldn’t count on the support of the Jewish Firefighters’ Union.
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