New York City

In late August 2019, a 64-year-old Hasidic resident of Brooklyn was bloodied with this brick in an attack being investigated by police as a hate crime. (Screenshots from Twitter)

September 15, 2019, 4:24 pm

Brooklyn man charged with hate crime for assault on rabbi

Lawyer for suspect Oniel Gilbourne denies violent attack on Abraham Gopin stemmed from anti-Semitic motive

By JTA and TOI staff

Pace University campus is seen Friday, May 17, 2019, in New York. (AP/Mary Altaffer)

September 15, 2019, 3:47 am

Jewish professor claims Pace University ousted him over his faith

Math adjunct Jonathan Gersch sues New York school for what he says is discrimination against observant Jews

By JTA

Signs about measles and the measles vaccine are displayed at the Rockland County Health Department in Pomona, New York., March 27, 2019. (Seth Wenig/AP)

September 3, 2019, 11:29 am

NYC health officials say Orthodox Jewish measles outbreak has ended

Emergency order mandating vaccines set to be lifted after two incubation periods since the last reported cases pass without any new infections

By AP

The site of a suspected anti-Semitic assault in Brooklyn on August 31, 2019. (Screen capture: CBS2 New York)

September 1, 2019, 6:19 pm

Jewish Brooklyn man beaten with own belt in suspected anti-Semitic attack

Victim apparently attacked after arguing with 2 men drinking outside synagogue; incident is third assault on Jews in NYC borough in less than a week

By TOI staff and JTA

This May 30, 2017 photo shows 650 5th Avenue in New York. Assistant US Attorney Michael Lockard on Monday, June 26, 2017 urged a jury to conclude a charity must give up majority ownership in the Manhattan skyscraper, saying it is secretly controlled by Iran (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, file)

August 13, 2019, 8:45 am

US court throws out ruling allowing seizure of Iran-linked Manhattan tower

Appeals bench allege ‘troubling pattern of errors’ in 2017 verdict that let government take over New York City building to cover terror-related verdicts

By TOI staff and AP

Mayim Bialik attends the 23rd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at The Shrine Expo Hall in Los Angeles, January 29, 2017. (Neilson Barnard/Getty Images via JTA)

August 1, 2019, 3:47 pm

Mayim Bialik hails NYC subway riders for erasing ‘Nazi’ graffiti

Actress says passengers’ use of hand sanitizer to remove scrawl on train ‘was a very powerful moment of unity and understanding’

By Marcy Oster

Lev Tahor girls walking in Chatham, Ontario, in December 2013 (screen capture: YouTube)

July 31, 2019, 5:25 pm

Heads of extreme religious sect Lev Tahor indicted in NY for kidnapping attempt

5 senior members of fringe Jewish group charged for conspiring to kidnap two children from their mother and return them to secretive community

By JTA

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaks during a press conference in Tehran, Iran, June 10, 2019. (Ebrahim Noroozi/ AP)

July 15, 2019, 11:45 pm

US lets Iranian FM enter country for talks at UN, but restricts his movements

Washington permits Mohammad Javad Zarif to travel to New York, forbids him from moving beyond six blocks of Tehran’s UN mission in Midtown Manhattan

By AFP

People protest against the upcoming ICE raids and detentions of refugee asylum seekers at a vigil outside the main ICE detention center (background) in downtown Los Angeles on July 12, 2019. (Mark RALSTON / AFP)

July 14, 2019, 2:15 pm

NYC mayor says immigration crackdown underway

Bill de Blasio vows his city will not cooperate with ICE in detaining undocumented migrants in nationwide raids

By Agencies and TOI staff

Cars on 6th Avenue during a major power outage affecting parts of the city New York City on July 13, 2019, (TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP)

July 14, 2019, 6:25 am

Times Square goes dark as power outage strikes Manhattan

Broadway shows forced to cancel and New Yorkers sweat like its 1977 after transformer fire plunges some 40,000 in Midtown to Upper West Side into un-air conditioned darkness

By AP

Israeli chef Eyal Shani prepares a pita in the newly-opened New York branch of his Miznon restaurant chain. (Danielle Ziri/Times of Israel)

July 8, 2019, 9:54 am

Israeli chef gets anti-Semitic threat after critic pans his NY restaurant prices

Anonymous letter sent to Eyal Shani blames ultra-Orthodox community for measles outbreak: ‘Jews are not wanted here!’

By TOI staff

Illustrative: A diced tomato (@eyaltomato on Instagram)

July 6, 2019, 2:41 am

Israeli celebrity chef Eyal Shani shocks NYC with his $24 tomato

The dish, a single peeled tomato cut into eight pieces and drizzled with olive oil and sea salt, is on the menu at HaSalon, his new restaurant in Hell’s Kitchen

By TOI staff

In this photo from July 2, 2019, people pray at the gravesite of Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson in the Queens borough of New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

July 5, 2019, 1:11 pm

25 years after his death, crowds flock to Chabad rebbe’s grave

Admirers of Menachem Mendel Schneerson come from as far as Alaska, South Africa to visit his burial site in Queens, hail its lack of pomp: ‘It’s authentic, not contrived’

By Deepti Hajela

Marc Kaufman’s family has been in the fur business in New York for five generations. (Josefin Dolsten JTA)

June 21, 2019, 9:22 pm

Ultra-Orthodox and Jewish pelt dealers get their hackles up as NYC mulls fur ban

New legislation threatens traditionally Jewish industry in city and has many worried it could lead to Hasidic Jews being targeted for wearing sable hats known as shtreimels

By Josefin Dolsten

An ultra-Orthodox Jew on the New York subway: ‘The wealth of New York’s Jewish cultural life blew my mind’. (Andrew Bayda/Shutterstock)

June 16, 2019, 5:35 pm

Man throws Jewish subway rider’s phone on tracks for filming anti-Semitic tirade

Brooklyn commuter caught on camera screaming ‘Kill all Jews’; NYPD investigating incident as a hate crime

By Marcy Oster