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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
A sign warns people of measles in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Williamsburg, on April 10, 2019, in Brooklyn, New York. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
June 11, 2019, 11:47 pm
New York City closes 10th Jewish school for violating vaccine order
Williamsburg institution was still admitting students and faculty who were not immunized against the measles, city official says
By Ben Sales
A New York City firefighter responds to the scene where a helicopter crash-landed on the roof of a midtown Manhattan skyscraper, June 10, 2019, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
June 10, 2019, 10:20 pm
Helicopter crashes into Manhattan building; pilot killed
No reports of injuries to people in the tower after apparent accident
By AP and TOI staff
New York City police officers stand guard in Times Square on December 31, 2016. (Angela Weiss/AFP)
June 8, 2019, 6:44 am
Bangladeshi immigrant charged with planning Times Square attack
Ashiqul Alam, 22, expressed support for Islamic State, tried to buy assault rifle from undercover FBI agents
By AFP
A sign warns people of measles in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Williamsburg on April 10, 2019 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)
June 8, 2019, 6:24 am
What’s really behind the measles outbreak in NY Jewish communities?
Officials blame vaccination rates, but large families, dense neighborhoods, a high rate of social interaction and a tendency to travel all facilitate the disease’s spread
By Ben Sales
In this January 10, 2019, file photo, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks at his State of the City address in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
June 6, 2019, 3:45 am
Presidential hopeful de Blasio says anti-Semitism threat comes from the right
New York City mayor addresses rise of hate crimes in the city, 60 percent of which target Jews
By JTA
Demonstrators chan anti-Israel slogans at an al-Quds Day rally in New York City, May 31, 2019. (Twitter screen capture)
June 5, 2019, 1:11 am
Protesters at Times Square ‘al-Quds Day’ rally call for destruction of Israel
Demonstrators at Iran-inspired rally in New York proclaim support for intifada, say Jewish State is ‘racist puppet’ of US
By TOI staff
Swastikas found drawn on an elementary school playground in Queens, New York, February 22, 2019. (YouTube screenshot)
May 31, 2019, 11:02 pm
NY police say hate crimes nearly doubled in 2019, with most anti-Semitic
Council Speaker Corey Johnson tells The Wall Street Journal, ‘We have an anti-Semitism crisis in New York’
By JTA
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