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
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
Five years ago, the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty was one of the largest, most powerful charities in New York City and the biggest Jewish anti-poverty agency in the nation. Today, it’s little but an afterthought. A humiliating scandal laid the Met Council low in 2013, sending executive director William Rapfogel and two former top…
UJA-Federation of New York raised a record $238 million in its centennial year, a $30 million increase over 2016. It is the fifth straight year in a row of fundraising increases at the philanthropy, which was founded in 1917. “UJA lay leaders and donors have ensured we are prepared to meet the challenges of the…
News that a powerful City Councilman will take over the troubled Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty broke before the city and state agencies tasked with monitoring the not-for-profit after its 2013 fraud scandal had approved the hire. Reports in Crain’s and the Wall Street Journal on Monday revealed that David Greenfield, who represents Boro Park…
An unidentified man was caught on camera carving dozens of swastikas into a sidewalk in Midwood, Brooklyn. Police in the area were alerted after property owners on on the 200 block of Newkirk Avenue reported the vandalism. A police spokesman did not say whether the NYPD’s Hate Crime Task Force was involved in the search….
(JTA) — A historic 179-year-old Conservative synagogue in New York’s Upper West Side is moving forward with plans to house a 14-story apartment building. The proposed project for the Shaare Zedek synagogue on West 93rd Street includes 20 condominiums, with a community center for the synagogue in the building’s first three floors, The Real Deal,…
Disgraced ‘alt-right’ provocateur Milo Yiannapoulos hired dwarfs wearing yarmulkes to perform at a New York book launch party as part of an elaborate stunt to mock an observant Jewish rival. Yiannapoulos used the dwarfs to ridicule Ben Shapiro, the editor of the conservative website The Daily Wire, at a Thursday night shindig for his new…
Inspired by the debate surrounding the whiteness of Wonder Woman’s Gal Gadot, we took to the streets to see what the average New Yorker has to say. Michael Heckle is the Forward opinion summer fellow and ASME associate.
The public health crisis of rampant opioid abuse has reached the insular ultra-Orthodox community in Brooklyn. Malky Klein, a 20-year-old ultra-Orthodox woman from Borough Park, died of an overdose last month, the New York Post reported. Jewish volunteer ambulances were called to the Klein home on June 24th after Klein’s mother found her unconscious in…
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