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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani arrives at City Hall in New York, January 2, 2026. (AP/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)
January 3, 2026, 12:24 am
Leading Jewish groups issue warning as Mamdani cuts antisemitism protections on first day
Unusually broad alliance of organizations criticizes NY mayor for revoking IHRA antisemitism definition, anti-BDS measure; US Holocaust Museum: Revocation ‘should alarm everyone’
By Luke Tress
Attendees at a left-wing Jewish rally mourn Israelis and Palestinians killed in the war caused by Palestinian terror group Hamas's October 2023 terror attack on Israel, during a memorial event at Union Square, New York, on October 7, 2024. (Julia Gergely)
October 8, 2024, 2:09 pm
In NYC, Jews gather together — but apart — to mark one year since Oct. 7 attack
Events feature prayers but also protests, with some focusing on the horrors of the Hamas massacre while others also highlight the plight of Palestinians
By New York Jewish Week via JTA and ToI Staff
Keren Munder, center, a former Hamas hostage, at a rally in Central Park, March 10, 2024. (Luke Tress via JTA)
March 11, 2024, 8:06 am
Thousands rally in New York’s Central Park in support of hostages held by Hamas
Freed hostage Keren Munder tells crowd of 3,000 that NY Jewish community ‘gives us strength’; demonstrators urge US to pressure Arab nation mediators, Israel to reach hostage deal
By Luke Tress
Gideon Taylor addresses guests during a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the signing of the Luxembourg Agreement on reparations between the Federal Republic of Germany and Israel, in Berlin, Sept. 15, 2022. (Tobias Schwarz/AFP via Getty Images)
June 23, 2023, 8:16 am
Gideon Taylor, CEO of Jewish Community Relations Council-New York, to step down
Transition comes as the city’s Jewish community contends with antisemitic attacks and waning support for Israel among progressive officials
By julia GERGELY
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY, is interviewed by Michael Miller, head of the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York, April 1, 2021. (Screenshot/YouTube)
April 7, 2021, 6:56 am
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez meets with top NYC Jewish group for 1st time in office
Progressive lawmaker holds virtual public interview with Jewish Community Relations Council of New York, ending what some saw as a snub of local Jewish leadership
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Now-executive director of the Community Security Initiative Mitchell Silber, left, meets with Jewish community leaders in Brussels, Belgium, in 2018. (Courtesy)
January 5, 2020, 4:32 am
Do not politicize anti-Semitism, says New York’s new Jewish security czar
‘The results are the same,’ regardless of whether attacks perpetrated by right wing extremists, Islamists, or community members, says Mitchell Silber, named head of CST this week
By Cathryn J. Prince
People participate in the Celebrate Israel Parade in the rain on June 5, 2016 in New York City (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images/AFP)
June 6, 2016, 8:42 am
30,000 parade through New York in support of Israel
Mayor Bill de Blasio vows that as long as he is in office the city ‘will always stand by’ the Jewish state
By Stuart Winer
Students from the Rambam Mesivta Jewish day school in Lawrence, NY, march in the 2014 Celebrate Israel Parade, holding a sign stating, Enemies of Israel are Not Israel's Friends,' June 1, 2014. (Rabbi Yotav Eliach/courtesy of Im Tirtzu)
February 13, 2015, 3:04 pm
No BDS supporters for New York Celebrate Israel Parade
While right-wing groups claim the New Israel Fund has been ousted from the event, it’s still unclear who will be marching
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Claims Conference representatives meet with German officials during Holocaust restitution negotiations in Israel in 2013. (photo credit: Courtesy Claims Conference)
June 20, 2014, 5:44 am
Claims Conference weighs shutting down vs. Holocaust education
Panel appointed after $57-million fraud scandal recommends that the organization shift its long-term focus to remembrance
By Uriel Heilman
August 1, 2012, 2:37 pm
Lew meets with New York Jewish leaders
Part of the White House’s intensified efforts to capture the Jewish vote
Participants marching at the Celebrate Israel Parade in New York, June 2011. (photo credit: Courtesy Celebrate Israel/JTA)
June 1, 2012, 11:08 pm
35,000 marchers expected Sunday for New York’s annual Israel parade
The theme this year is ‘Israel Branches Out’; participants will be dressing up as fruit, nature, agriculture and even technology
By JTA
April 20, 2012, 9:28 am
Chicago urges city workers’ pension fund to divest from Iran
City would join New York, Washington and 11 other US cities
Alan Gross, with his wife Judy, at the Western Wall in the spring of 2005. (photo credit: courtesy)
February 22, 2012, 9:54 am
Alan Gross, jailed for providing Internet to Cuba’s Jews, not going anywhere soon
An Associated Press report earlier this month has exacerbated concerns that Cuba will hang tough on its stated determination not to release Gross
By Ron Kampeas
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