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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 428

Brooklyn

A group photo from the Annual Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries, taken at the Chabad headquarters in New York, December 1, 2024 (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
December 2, 2024, 12:36 pm
‘Like a big brother’: Chabad memorializes slain UAE rabbi Zvi Kogan at annual conference
US gathering attracts record 6,500 rabbis and guests, including from war-torn Ukraine and Israel; many serve on campuses where students and faculty face rising antisemitism
By Zev Stub
Simchat Torah Across Brooklyn in 2021, in Grand Army Plaza. (Gili Getz via JTA)
October 24, 2024, 5:45 am
Brooklyn Jews divided since Oct. 7 attack reunite for annual Simhat Torah event
Cantor of synagogue that is the lead organizer of Simchat Torah Across Brooklyn hopes to include Jews from across religious and political spectrum by ‘putting Torah at the center’
By Luke Tress
The Park Slope Food Co-op. (CC-BY Stevendamron, Flickr)
October 22, 2024, 8:11 pm
Jewish members of New York co-op health food store file complaint over antisemitism
Jewish and Israeli members of Brooklyn’s Park Slope Food Coop allege anti-Jewish, anti-Israel harassment commonplace, say no action taken against member who performed Nazi salute
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Joshua Leifer and his new book, "Tablets Shattered." (Courtesy/Dutton Publishing via JTA)
August 23, 2024, 10:38 pm
Brooklyn book launch rescheduled after cancellation over ‘Zionist’ rabbi moderator
Event for Joshua Leifer’s ‘Tablets Shattered’ back on as owner of bookstore blames rogue employee for ‘hideous’ incident, fires her
By Luke Tress
Rabbi Andy Bachman attends a protest in New York, December 9, 2013. (Andrew Burton / Getty Images via AFP)
August 21, 2024, 9:13 pm
NY bookshop said to nix talk by Jewish critic of Zionism for including Zionist rabbi
Author Joshua Leifer says he was expecting flack from synagogues, not a Brooklyn bookstore; progressive rabbi he was set to appear with slams move as ‘Stalinist or Maoist’
By ToI Staff
Screen capture from video showing Vincent Sumpter, left, moments after he allegedly stabbed an Israeli yeshiva student, right, in Brooklyn, New York, August 10, 2024. (X. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
August 12, 2024, 10:42 am
Man charged with hate crime in Brooklyn stabbing of Israeli yeshiva student
Vincent Sumpter, 22, charged with eight felonies over attack in which he allegedly shouted ‘Free Palestine’; victim says knife missed his heart by four centimeters
By Luke Tress
A pro-Palestinian demonstrator hangs a flag on top of the Brooklyn Museum while occupying the building to protest against Israel over its war with Hamas in Gaza, May 31, 2024, in New York. (AP/Andres Kudacki)
August 2, 2024, 6:34 am
Anti-Israel protester charged with hate crimes for vandalizing homes of NY museum heads
Woman was among pro-Palestinian activists filmed vandalizing home of Brooklyn Museum’s director with red paint, symbol used by Hamas for identifying targets
By AP and ToI Staff
A pro-Palestinian demonstrator hangs a flag on top of the Brooklyn Museum while occupying the building to protest against Israel over its war with Hamas in Gaza, May 31, 2024, in New York. (AP/Andres Kudacki)
June 1, 2024, 5:42 am
Police arrest 22 for anti-Israel demo backed by pro-Hamas group at Brooklyn Museum
Demonstrators clash with NYPD, set up tents and hang banner from building after call to ‘flood’ museum for Gaza, in allusion to name terror group gave to its October 7 massacre
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Illustrative: NYPD vehicles in a religious neighborhood in Brooklyn, November 6, 2022. (Luke Tress)
May 31, 2024, 4:40 pm
Man arrested, charged with hate crimes after driving car at Haredi Jews in Brooklyn
Suspect accused of 10 offenses including attempted murder as hate crime; separately, man indicted for antisemitic slurs at couple who photographed him tearing down hostage posters
By Luke Tress
Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters confront police during a Nakba Day rally and march on May 18, 2024 in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn, New York. (Spencer Platt/ Getty Images/ AFP)
May 20, 2024, 8:39 pm
NYC mayor defends police after violent clashes at pro-Palestinian Brooklyn rally
Eric Adams says video showing police punching protesters as they lie on the ground is ‘isolated incident,’ backs cops’ claim that Nakba demonstrators rioted
By AP and ToI Staff
Israeli rock band 'Hayehudim' performs during a live concert in the Magesta Festival in Elma, Zichron Yaakov, on June 15, 2019. (Yahav Gamliel/Flash90)
April 10, 2024, 10:31 am
New York venue cancels show by Israeli band ‘The Jews,’ citing their name
Brooklyn Monarch concert hall tells Hayehudim that there is a problem with ‘the political nature of the band’s name’
By ToI Staff
Shelly Weiss (Facebook; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law))
February 27, 2024, 3:16 pm
Shelly Weiss, Brooklyn ‘queer icon’ and progressive Jewish activist, dies at 77
Weiss put aside her career in social work and health administration to found and promote multiple organizations supporting the LGBTQ community
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Hasidic Jewish students observe as law enforcement establishes a perimeter around a breached wall in the synagogue that led to a tunnel dug by students at Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters, January 8, 2024, in New York. (Bruce Schaff via AP)
January 11, 2024, 4:32 am
Fracas over tunnel at Chabad HQ the result of push to expand Brooklyn compound
Leading officials in Hasidic movement condemn unrest at 770 as work of fringe group, as incident draws attention to group’s internal disputes and fuels antisemitic conspiracies
By Luke Tress
Approximately 1,400 Chabad rabbis who live in Israel pose for a group photo in Jerusalem on November 12, 2023. (Courtesy of Tzvaim Productions/Mendi Kotler/Mendi Kurant)
November 15, 2023, 2:29 pm
Israel’s 1,400 Chabad rabbis skip New York reunion in favor of war effort
Some 6,500 participants attend Haredi movement’s flagship annual event, where Israel and its wartime victims loom large
By Canaan Lidor and JTA
Traffic makes its way through flood waters along the Brooklyn Queens Expressway, September 29, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Robert Bumsted)
September 29, 2023, 11:54 pm
New York declares state of emergency as heavy rains flood subways, streets
City sees one of its wettest days in decades, stranding drivers and delaying flights at LaGuardia as further downpours expected; no reports of deaths or injuries
By Jake Offenhartz and Jennifer Peltz
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