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Graffiti at a park in Brooklyn, January 21, 2026. (Courtesy/Community Board 12)
May 8, 2026, 11:06 pm
Antisemitic assaults surged 56% in Brooklyn last year — ADL report
While incidents declined across the city, physical attacks on Jews in borough increased from 32 to 50, mostly targeting visibly identifiable Orthodox community members, watchdog says
By Luke Tress
Female emissaries of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement gather for a group photo in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, on February 6, 2026. (Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
February 8, 2026, 9:20 pm
From far corners of the Jewish world, the women of Chabad gather in freezing Brooklyn
Annual gathering of female emissaries provides a respite for those on the front lines of religious life in far-flung communities, performing outreach and providing vital services
By Grace Gilson
Levi Aron, accused of abducting and dismembering 8-year-old boy Leiby Kletzky, is arraigned in Brooklyn criminal court in New York on August 4, 2011. He later pleaded guilty. (AP Photo/Jesse Ward, Pool)
December 7, 2025, 8:46 pm
2011 murderer of Hasidic boy in Brooklyn dies in prison
Levi Aron was serving 40 years to life for killing 8-year-old Yehuda ‘Leiby’ Kletzky in Borough Park 14 years ago
By Zev Stub
Yoni Kretzmer (standing) teaches the children at the Greenpoint Shul's newly incorporated Hebrew school. (Courtesy Greenpoint Shul via JTA)
October 26, 2025, 3:58 pm
A growing Hebrew school may augur a new era for Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood
Though it borders the Hasidic hub of Williamsburg, the north Brooklyn community was never known for its Jewish population – though that may be changing
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Illustrative: Men walking in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York, in 2017. (Amir Levy/ Getty Images/ File)
August 25, 2025, 11:49 pm
97-year-old NY congregation fights being sold off as a real estate project
Congregation Chaim Albert sues nonprofit One Brooklyn Health to block medical center from selling off site as part of plan that threatens to shutter historical synagogue
By Luke Tress
New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani speaks at a rally with Hotel and Gaming Trades Council workers, in New York, August 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
August 23, 2025, 10:16 am
Amid NYC mayoral race, Jewish school requires parents to show proof of voter registration
Orthodox Brooklyn school catering to Syrian community frames requirement as a way to safeguard communal interests in move apparently against Mamdani
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Michail Chkhikvishvili (US Department of Justice)
May 24, 2025, 5:18 pm
US extradites neo-Nazi ‘murder cult’ leader from Moldova over plot targeting NYC Jews
Michail Chkhikvishvili, a Georgian who leads the Maniac Murder Cult, faces charges for allegedly ordering poisoned candy be handed out to Jewish kids and racial minorities
By Jake Offenhartz
This image taken from video shows a woman and a police officer as they are pursued by a group of Orthodox Jewish men in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York, following an anti-Israel protest outside a synagogue on April 24, 2025. (AP Photo)
April 29, 2025, 4:22 am
Tensions boil in Brooklyn after clashes outside synagogue, threats to Jewish community
Anti-Israel activists threaten local community ahead of protest that comes in response to video of Jews pursuing woman down street at scene of anti-Israel rally at synagogue
By Luke Tress
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir at the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 27, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
April 19, 2025, 4:33 am
Brooklyn fundraiser with Ben Gvir canceled days before far-right minister’s US trip
Webpages advertising benefit for Chabad of Hebron taken down after report on Ben Gvir’s scheduled appearance; organizers cite ‘unforeseen changes in the minister’s schedule’
By Andrew Lapin
A flipped Audi pictured at the scene of a deadly collision in south Brooklyn on March 29, 2025 (X screenshot, used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)
April 16, 2025, 10:04 pm
NY driver who killed Jewish family was going almost 3 times the speed limit, DA says
Miriam Yarimi, also Jewish, arraigned for charges including second-degree manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide; mother and two daughters were walking home from synagogue
By Luke Tress
A flipped Audi pictured at the scene of a deadly collision in south Brooklyn on March 29, 2025 (X screenshot, used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)
April 2, 2025, 7:41 am
‘Stop super speeders’ bill gains new interest after NY crash kills Jewish mom, 2 kids
State Sen. Andrew Gounardes among those backing measure that would see speed limiters installed in vehicles of repeat road offenders
By Jackie Hajdenberg
A flipped Audi pictured at the scene of a deadly collision in south Brooklyn on March 29, 2025 (X screenshot, used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)
March 30, 2025, 10:32 pm
NY Jewish community mourns after driver kills mom, 2 kids walking home from synagogue
Shabbat afternoon accident in south Brooklyn allegedly caused by Jewish wigmaker with suspended license and dozens of traffic tickets
By Luke Tress
A yeshiva school bus drives through Borough Park on September 12, 2022 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City (Spencer Platt / Getty Images North America / Getty Images via AFP)
March 26, 2025, 10:26 am
Former allies, divided by Trumpian style, vie to represent NYC Orthodox neighborhood
State Sen. Simcha Felder and radio host Heshy Tischler joined forces to open playgrounds during pandemic. Now they’re competing in race for city council spot
By Ben Sales
Women pushing strollers walk past the Yeshiva Kehilath Yakov School in the South Williamsburg neighborhood, April 9, 2019 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Drew Angerer/ Getty Images via AFP)
March 21, 2025, 8:44 am
Three more NYC yeshivas to lose funding as secular education standards take effect
Parents at ultra-Orthodox schools in Brooklyn told to look elsewhere for their kids’ education, ahead of New York’s June 30 deadline for secular education mandate
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Hasidic Jewish students sit behind a breach in the wall of a synagogue that led to a tunnel dug by the students at Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters, January 8, 2024, in New York. (Bruce Schaff via AP)
January 15, 2025, 6:47 am
Six men reach plea deals for attempting to tunnel into Chabad HQ in Brooklyn
Four others opt for trial over 60-foot long tunnel behind synagogue wall, as judge scolds them for incident that gained international attention: ‘A blemish on the Chabad movement’
By Ben Sales
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