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Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the Jewish community in New York state, home to the most Jews of any U.S. state.
See also: New York City
Columbia law professor Ariela Dubler has been appointed as the new head of the Abraham Joshua Heschel School. Dubler, who is vice president of the school’s board, will succeed Roanna Shorofsky, at the helm of the liberal school that is considered one of New York’s leading Jewish educational institutions, Under Shorofsky’s tenure, Heschel expanded to…
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, in his final major policy speech before leaving office at year’s end, on Wednesday warned that a budding U.S. urban revival is threatened by mushrooming public pension and health-care costs. Bloomberg, addressing the Economic Club of New York just two weeks before his three terms in office are due to…
A suburban New York City man was arrested for allegedly assaulting seven men in so-called knockout game attacks. Darryl Mitchell, 20, of North Amityville on Long Island will be arraigned Wednesday in Suffolk County Criminal Court and charged with attacks that date back to April, according to reports. Two of the victims were over 65….
Jacob Ostreicher, a New York businessman held in Bolivia since 2011, has returned to the United States, the U.S. State Department reportedly confirmed. An unnamed State Department official late Monday confirmed to the Associated Press that Ostreicher was in the United States for the first time in more than two years, but did not provide…
(JTA) — Chava, a student at a Chabad seminary, has lived in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn for six years, but it’s only in the past few days that she started carrying pepper spray in her handbag. Her younger brother gave her the deterrent after news hit of a string of recent attacks against…
Police throughout the United States are investigating whether a rash of teen attacks on strangers, many of them Jewish, is a crime trend known as the “knockout game” or a series of random acts of violence. A savage assault outside a pizza parlor in Philadelphia left a man severely injured, but with all his belongings…
When an investigative team appointed by Yeshiva University reported in August that the school had “failed to appropriately act to protect the safety of its students or did not respond” to credible allegations that they’d been sexually abused, it drew an important caveat: This dereliction of responsibility had continued, the investigators said, “until 2001.” After…
A Brooklyn man was reportedly charged with a hate crime after he beat an Orthodox Jewish man in what police say may be the latest example of a spreading violent urban game known as ‘knock out.’ Amrit Marajh, 28, of Kensington, allegedly hit an identifiably Jewish man as he walked home early Friday in the…
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