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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 467

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Civil rights leaders Roy Wilkins and A. Phillip Randolph during a protest at Maryland's Glen Echo Park in 1960. (Courtesy/George Meany Library)
Interview
Film charts lasting impact of rollercoaster Black-Jewish protest of segregated park
By Luke Tress
Documentary film ‘Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round,’ screening Jan. 29 at the NY Jewish Film Festival, shows how a 1960 neighborhood demonstration in Maryland shifted civil rights
Civil rights leaders Roy Wilkins and A. Phillip Randolph during a protest at Maryland's Glen Echo Park in 1960. (Courtesy/George Meany Library)
January 14, 2025, 7:42 am
Film charts lasting impact of rollercoaster Black-Jewish protest of segregated park
Documentary film ‘Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round,’ screening Jan. 29 at the NY Jewish Film Festival, shows how a 1960 neighborhood demonstration in Maryland shifted civil rights
By Luke Tress
Columbia law professor Katherine Franke. (Youtube Screenshot / Democracy Now)
January 10, 2025, 11:16 pm
Columbia University professor retires as probe finds she discriminated against Israelis
Katherine Franke leaves school after investigation says she violated university discrimination policy when saying Israeli students harass Palestinians on campus
By Luke Tress
Police at an anti-Israel protest in Times Square, New York City, January 6, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
January 7, 2025, 9:08 pm
In NYC, Jews targeted in hate crimes more than all other groups combined in 2024
NYPD data says Jewish New Yorkers subjected to 345 antisemitic incidents last year, 54% of total for all minorities
By Luke Tress
Keffiyeh-clad individuals slash and rip down posters of October 7 hostages hung in New York, as seen in Nim Shapira's film 'TORN: The Israel-Palestine Poster War on NYC Streets.' (Courtesy)
January 7, 2025, 3:55 am
How posters of Hamas hostages became targets in the war for public opinion in NY
Documentary film ‘TORN’ examines the emotional toll and legal aspects of anti-Israel activists’ oft-violent ripping down and destroying of ‘KIDNAPPED’ notices
By Renee Ghert-Zand
An anti-Israel protester wearing a Hamas headband outside the NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City, January 6, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
January 7, 2025, 1:17 am
‘We don’t want no Zionists here’: Anti-Israel activists protest against NYC hospital
Several hundred rally to highlight ‘destruction’ of Gaza’s healthcare system; Israel supporter retorts: ‘You guys are protesting at a hospital. What the f*** is wrong with you?’
By Luke Tress
Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel activists outside Columbia University, February 2, 2024. (Luke Tress/JTA)
January 3, 2025, 4:01 am
NY university opens first legal clinic training future lawyers to combat antisemitism
Touro University, with the nonprofit National Jewish Advocacy Center, launches program focused on legal strategies for safeguarding Jews, and hopes to expand to other colleges
By Luke Tress
Illustrative: NYPD vehicles in a religious Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, November 6, 2022. (Luke Tress)
January 3, 2025, 12:58 am
Vehicular ramming that alarmed New York Jews was an accident — NYPD
Police say incident in which three pedestrians were injured near Jewish center was caused by ‘extreme inattention’ and wasn’t criminal
By Luke Tress
Katz's Deli in New York City, December 7, 2020. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
January 3, 2025, 12:43 am
Katz’s Deli will become accessible to the disabled after federal lawsuit
Iconic NYC Jewish eatery agrees to make renovations, pay civil fine after legal pressure that started with a 2011 popular restaurants listing
By Luke Tress
Anti-Israel protesters in Times Square, New York City, January 1, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
January 2, 2025, 1:43 am
Hundreds chant for ‘intifada’ at New Year’s Day protest in NYC’s Times Square
Demonstrators hold signs saying ‘Zionism is cancer,’ argue with pro-Israel counter-protesters; sides separated by police on high alert following New Orleans terror attack
By Luke Tress
The Hanukkah House in Midwood, Brooklyn, is an annual tradition. (Courtesy)
December 25, 2024, 4:36 pm
As Hanukkah begins, here are 8 special activities in New York City
Events in the Big Apple over this holiday season include a Yiddish festival, menorah lightings, a pop-up bar and nightly concerts
By Lisa Keys
Threats that Donovan Hall allegedly sent to the Settenbrino family over videos their son shared from Gaza. (Courtesy)
December 24, 2024, 11:48 pm
Man charged for threatening NY hotel owners over videos soldier son posted from Gaza
Arizona suspect made hundreds of calls, including death threats, to Settenbrino family amid online campaign sparked by clips from war
By Luke Tress
Illustrative: Police and community safety vehicles at a Jewish event in Brooklyn, New York City, May 19, 2022. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
December 24, 2024, 7:50 pm
ISIS, protests, cybercrime: US Jewish security group warns of holiday threats
No known concrete dangers for American Jews during Hanukkah, but calls for attacks by extremist groups raise concerns
By Luke Tress
Gil Shefler, left, and Gilad Abro, center, and Elana Rozenfeld, right, of the "Jazzukah Project." (Courtesy)
December 21, 2024, 10:20 pm
‘Jazzukkah Project’ aims to create a new Jewish soundtrack for the holiday season
Jazz band hopes its Hanukkah repertoire will provide an alternative to Christmas music for Jewish audiences, will perform at New York synagogue on the first night of festival
By Luke Tress
NYPD officers stand guard during an anti-Israel rally at the Israeli consulate on October 9, 2023 in New York City, two days after the Hamas attack on southern Israel. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images/AFP)
December 20, 2024, 1:23 am
FBI arrests college student for plotting mass casualty attack on Israeli consulate in NYC
Egyptian national attending university in Virginia accused of encouraging informant to carry out attack, instructing him how to make a bomb, surveil the consulate and later escape
By Luke Tress
A rally in support of the hostages held in Gaza in New York City's Central Park, December 15, 2024. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
December 18, 2024, 5:03 am
‘Sense of community’: NY hostage rallies keep drawing crowds after 14 months of war
Hundreds regularly attend weekly demonstrations in Central Park to hear from family members of the captives, where they back their efforts and support each other
By Luke Tress
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