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Cara Trager at the Western Wall in Jerusalem in January 2026. (Courtesy of Rachel Sales)
June 11, 2026, 1:44 pm
Cara Trager, beloved Queens Jewish communal leader and lifelong journalist, dies at 71
A Bronx-born writer who was ‘hungry for Judaism’ from a young age, Trager wrote for Newsday until her death, loved Israel, and was involved in myriad Jewish institutions and causes
By Grace Gilson
US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a New York Democrat, speaks at the NYCLU's May Day rally for worker's and immigrants rights at Foley Square, May 1, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)
July 22, 2025, 5:29 am
‘AOC funds genocide in Gaza’: Anti-Israel activists vandalize Ocasio-Cortez’s NY office
Democrat defends voting against amendment to cut funding for Israeli air defenses, vows to keep pushing ‘to cut flow of US munitions that are being used to perpetuate the genocide’
By Luke Tress and JTA
US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (L), Democrat of New York; US Independent Senator Bernie Sanders (C) from Vermont and US Representative Jamaal Bowman, Democrat of New York, attend a 'Get Out The Vote' rally on the weekend before the Democratic Primary in New York, June 22, 2024. (Yuki IWAMURA / AFP)
June 23, 2024, 7:56 am
Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez slam AIPAC funding of rival at Bowman rally in NYC
New York’s 16th District Congressman says opponent George Latimer and US-Israel lobby group are ‘destroying our democracy’; war on Hamas a key talking point
By Luke Tress
This portrait of Benjamin Melendez was included in the 2010 exhibition 'Only in New York.' (Julian Voloj/JTA)
September 8, 2023, 4:22 am
How a Puerto Rican-Jewish gang leader helped create hip-hop in the Bronx
New 5-part podcast ‘Can You Dig It’ explores the story of ‘Yellow Benjy’ Melendez, who brokered peace and whose influence allowed an emerging musical genre to take root and grow
By Andrew Esensten
A song and dance book in the Fordham University collection features the lyrics for 'Hatikvah' and 'For He's a Jolly Good Fellow,' and a 'Jewish dictionary.' (Julia Gergely/ New York Jewish Week via JTA)
December 4, 2022, 3:27 am
How a Catholic school amassed a treasure trove of Jewish artifacts from the Bronx
Fordham University, a private Jesuit institution with a growing Jewish studies center, has for 3 years been cataloging the once-thriving Jewish community in its neighborhood
By julia GERGELY
Assemblyman Eichenstein returns Collins' lost wallet (Courtesy via JTA)
May 17, 2022, 3:44 pm
NY man thanks Hasidic family for returning lost wallet
Brooklyn couple returns wallet found with over $1,400 in cash; man says he ‘appreciates the gesture so much’
By Jacob Henry
A memorial for the victims of an apartment building fire is displayed in front of the building in the Bronx borough of New York, January 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
January 16, 2022, 8:08 pm
‘There’s injustice. There’s neglect’: Victims of Bronx fire laid to rest
17 people, ranging in age from 2 to 50, died in suffocating smoke that filled 19-story high-rise last week; officials blame faulty space heater
By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN
A volunteer, left, distributes hot soup at a distribution tent set up by the Masbia kosher pantry network near the scene of a deadly fire in the Bronx, Jan. 10, 2022. The fire, which claimed 19 lives, is the city's deadliest in 30 years. (Courtesy Masbia via JTA)
January 11, 2022, 5:41 am
Jewish groups rally for victims of deadly Bronx fire as residents mourn
Many of those displaced were immigrants from Gambia, who are struggling to come to terms with the toll of the devastating fire
By Agencies
Emergency first responders remain at the scene after an intense fire at a 19-story residential building that erupted in the morning of January 9, 2022 in the Bronx borough of New York City. (Scott Heins/ Getty Images/ AFP)
January 9, 2022, 11:13 pm
19 dead, including 9 children, in ‘unprecedented’ New York City apartment fire
Some 200 firefighters respond to massive blaze ripping through 19-story building in Bronx; 32 people hospitalized; cause being investigated
By AP
New York police officers respond to an attack at one of four synagogues in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, April 26, 2021. (NYPD via Twitter)
May 2, 2021, 3:13 pm
US police arrest man suspected of hate crimes against several Bronx synagogues
Arrest comes after perpetrator vandalized 4 houses of worship in Riverdale, stole a bicycle and threw Jewish holy books on the ground
By Ben Sales
New York police officers respond to an attack at one of four synagogues in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, April 26, 2021. (NYPD via Twitter)
April 28, 2021, 9:38 am
Bronx synagogue vandal strikes Riverdale Jewish Center in latest attack
New York police looking for lone suspect after rocks are thrown and windows smashed at four houses of worship
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
A US rabbi inspects the damage at the Chabad of Riverdale synagogue after vandals broke windows of four neighborhood synagogues on April 25, 2021. (Screen capture/News12 Connecticut)
April 26, 2021, 1:58 am
Four synagogues in NYC’s Riverdale neighborhood vandalized, windows smashed
Police step up protection around synagogues; Gov. Cuomo instructs State Police Hate Crimes Task Force to assist in investigation
By Ben Sales
Yeshiva University, New York. (Wikimedia Commons)
March 4, 2020, 6:23 pm
Yeshiva University cancels classes after student confirmed to carry COVID-19
Father of student in serious condition due to coronavirus; his sister, mother and neighbor also infected; hundreds of synagogue members in New Rochelle ordered to self-quarantine
By JTA
Portrait of Garry Winogrand (Judy Teller)
October 30, 2018, 6:06 am
Film focuses on uncompromising street photographer’s unexposed work
Even as quintessential man-of-the-people Garry Winogrand’s fame in the art world grew, his much reduced financial circumstances meant he almost lived in them as he pursued ‘truth’
By Renee Ghert-Zand
A view of the Ramaz school in New York. (Google Street View via JTA)
August 31, 2018, 5:49 pm
Prestigious New York Jewish school apologizes for ignoring molestation reports
Ramaz administrators didn’t alert other schools when they heard allegations against a former teacher
By JTA
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