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Elchonon “Elie” Schwartz. Photo: Screenshot
May 22, 2025, 12:57 pm
Property mogul jailed for £49m real estate fraud
Elie Schwartz sentenced to more than seven years after duping 800 investors in Atlanta and Miami schemes
By Annabel Sinclair
Marching at Israel Day on Fifth, May 18th 2025, New York City. Pic: Twitter/X
May 20, 2025, 12:55 am
50,000 join world’s largest Israel solidarity event in New York
Freed hostages join 50,000 participants in historic march through Manhattan
By Michelle Rosenberg
United Nations Security Council meeting. (Wikipedia/Source The Official White House Photostream. Author :White House (Pete Souza) / Maison Blanche (Pete Souza))
May 16, 2025, 11:38 am
UN Security Council urged to act over Hamas’ refusal to return hostages’ bodies
Israel demands enforcement of international law as families tell Council: ‘Bring them all home’
By Annabel Sinclair
Raif Rashed
April 16, 2025, 3:55 pm
Nova survivor opens restaurant in New York
Taboonia is the city’s second Druze restaurant — and the first to seek kosher certification.
By Jackie Hajdenberg (JTA)
The National Transportation Safety Board gives a briefing on the plane crash that killed six in New York's Hudson Valley, 12 April, 2025. (Screenshot)
April 16, 2025, 9:41 am
Jewish family on way to seder killed in plane crash
One of the victims, Karenna Groff, played for team USA at the 2019 European Maccabi Games
By Grace Gilson (JTA)
Omer Neutra’s family hold the newly unveiled street sign in his honour during the dedication ceremony in Plainview, Long Island.
April 9, 2025, 11:15 am
New York street renamed in honour of fallen hostage Omer Neutra
His parents used the dedication to urge Trump and Netanyahu to act swiftly to bring home 59 hostages
By Annabel Sinclair
Scene of the tragedy. Miriam Yarimi's car is pictured overturned.
March 31, 2025, 12:45 pm
Mill Hill family mourns mother and daughters killed in Shabbat crash
The victims, who had close family in London, were struck while walking home from synagogue in New York
By Annabel Sinclair
Anti-Israel protesters waving a Hamas flag at a demonstration in Times Square on July 31, 2024. William C Lopez/New York Post
March 4, 2025, 12:22 pm
New York bill could put anti-Israel protesters with terror flags behind bars
Democrats mulling four year sentences as part of proposed Stand Against Flags of Enemy Terrorists Act
By Michelle Rosenberg
Jacob Fortune-Lloyd as Brian Epstein with Emily Watson and Eddie Marsan in Midas Man, gala opening film at the New York Jewish Film Festival
January 23, 2025, 3:25 pm
New York welcomes back Brian Epstein and The Beatles
A dream came true for the writer of biopic Midas Man when it opened the New York Jewish Film Festival
By Brigit Grant
Modi
December 13, 2024, 3:26 pm
New York’s Jewish community honours Modi
The Big Apple's Jewish council (caucus) thanks comedian for 'spreading a message of love through dark times'
By Michelle Rosenberg
Jewish News has asked Lego to clarify its policy and is yet to receive a reply
November 13, 2024, 5:25 pm
Lego store refuses to make figurine featuring yellow hostage ribbon
University professor told by Manhattan branch manager that kidnapped Israelis are a political issue
By Jenni Frazer
Defeated US Vice President Kamala Harris in Wisconsin, 2024 and victorious former president Donald Trump in New Jersey, 2024 (REUTERS)
November 10, 2024, 7:25 pm
OPINION: After the hype, the Israel-Hamas war played little role in the results of the US election
While New York Jews offered more support to Donald Trump than previously, Sam Freedland - who saw the final days of the race for the White House up close - says issues closer to home dominated the campaign
By Sam Freedland
US celebrity chef Jake Cohen
October 28, 2024, 2:18 pm
Which three celebrities are living together in New York?
(One of them is chef Jake Cohen, who has a new cooking series out in the US)
By Rachel Ringler - JTA
October 8, 2024, 12:43 pm
Peaceful Times Square vigil for 7 October anniversary
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach invites interfaith leaders to give speeches as New Yorkers gather to remember the victims
By Nathaniel Frum
July 30, 2024, 12:16 pm
New memoir explores traumatic teenage years in Hasidic Crown Heights
Lesbian chef tells of misogyny, assault and trauma she experienced when sent to live with a Hasidic rabbi
By Julia Gergely JTA
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