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Anti-Zionist protesters in New York City, May 5, 2026. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
May 6, 2026, 7:30 am
Protesters bearing Hezbollah flag scuffle with NYPD while marching on synagogue
Demonstration against Israel real estate event draws hundreds, who chant ‘Death to the IDF’ and ‘End the settler Zionist state’; counter-demonstrators warn ‘Antizionism is a hate movement’
By Luke Tress
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani at an annual interfaith event hosted by City Hall, in New York City, February 6, 2026. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
February 6, 2026, 9:19 pm
Mamdani and Jewish allies put spotlight on immigrants at annual interfaith event
Breakfast for religious leaders focuses on activism against immigration enforcement, with mayor highlighting past Jewish civil rights activists
By Luke Tress
Anti-Israel protesters stand outside Park East Synagogue in Manhattan, New York, during an Israeli immigration event hosted by Nefesh B'Nefesh, November 19, 2025. (Selçuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images)
December 4, 2025, 8:37 am
After vitriolic synagogue protest, NY Jewish leaders call to ‘stand up as proud Jews’
Coalition of Jewish groups to hold solidarity rally at Manhattan’s Park East Synagogue, as state lawmakers push bill to ban demonstrations adjacent to houses of worship
By Joseph Strauss
The entrance to Park East Synagogue, with dueling protesters on each side, separated by police, in New York City, November 19, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
November 26, 2025, 1:47 pm
Daily Briefing Nov. 26: Day 782 – NY Jews’ mayoral fears realized at synagogue protest. What now?
NY correspondent Luke Tress gives the play-by-play of last week’s virulently anti-Israel protest, how lawfare groups may try to prevent future intimidation and a fraught campus atmosphere
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Luke Tress
Protesters at Park East Synagogue in New York City, November 19, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
November 24, 2025, 10:53 pm
NYPD chief apologizes for allowing ‘turmoil’ outside synagogue
After anti-Israel activists chanted ‘Death to the IDF’ at Park East Synagogue entrance, Jessica Tisch says she could have done more; DoJ launches investigation into demonstration
By JTA and Luke Tress
New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani speaks during a news conference in the Queens borough of New York, November 5, 2025. (AP Photo/ Heather Khalifa)
November 21, 2025, 1:42 pm
A crowd chanted death threats outside an NYC synagogue. Mamdani found fault with both sides
Mayor-elect has previously denounced obvious instances of antisemitism, but this was his first real test, a case of antisemitism motivated by anti-Zionism, and he didn’t exactly condemn it
By Ben Sales
FILE - New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani talks to reporters at a news conference in New York, November 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
November 21, 2025, 5:08 am
After protest at synagogue, Mamdani says Israel immigration event misused ‘sacred space’
NYC mayor-elect appears to suggest Nefesh B’Nefesh’s promotion of immigration to Jewish state is a ‘violation of international law’ in statement that doesn’t address antisemitism
By Joseph Strauss
Rabbi Benjamin Goldschmidt and his wife, journalist Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt, announced the name of their new congregation via social media on Feb. 16. (Screenshot from Instagram via JTA)
February 17, 2022, 6:16 am
Rabbi ousted from Park East Synagogue announces new Manhattan congregation
Benjamin Goldschmidt says name of new community he’s starting with his wife will be ‘Altneu,’ a portmanteau of the Yiddish words for ‘old’ and ‘new’
By julia GERGELY
Rabbi Benjamin Goldschmidt. (YouTube screenshot via JTA)
October 30, 2021, 1:15 am
Fired rabbi defends himself against charges of ‘insurrection’ at NY synagogue
Rabbi Benjamin Goldschmidt was fired two weeks ago from New York’s Park East Synagogue amid accusations he tried to orchestrate a coup to replace the congregation’s senior rabbi
By Ben Sales
Rabbi Benjamin Goldschmidt. (YouTube screenshot via JTA)
October 21, 2021, 6:29 pm
NYC’s Park East Synagogue fires popular assistant rabbi, sparking protest
Modern Orthodox congregation’s leadership doesn’t say why Rabbi Benjamin Goldschmidt was axed, but his removal follows push by some members to ‘revitalize the synagogue’
By Ben Sales
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon briefs the Security Council during a meeting on the situation in the 'Middle East and Palestine,' January 26, 2016, at the UN in New York. (AFP/United Nations/UN Photo/Loey Felipe)
February 7, 2016, 10:11 pm
UN chief heckled at NY synagogue during Holocaust speech
Congregants at commemoration event said to accuse Ban Ki-moon of justifying terrorism
By ToI Staff
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on October 20, 2015 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
February 5, 2016, 6:41 am
UN chief to speak at New York synagogue’s Shabbat service
Ban Ki-moon to address congregation of Manhattan’s Park East Synagogue to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day
By JTA
Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon addresses the UN Security Council, October 22, 2015. (Permanent Mission of Israel to the UN)
February 4, 2016, 5:47 pm
Palestinians stepping up statehood bid, Israel’s UN envoy warns
The world was briefly distracted by IS, but Security Council resolution on Palestine not off the table, says Danny Danon
By Raphael Ahren
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90/File)
January 19, 2014, 11:02 pm
UN chief visits NY synagogue for Holocaust memorial
Ban Ki-moon says cruelty of Shoah is ‘still hard to grasp’; tells Channel 2 he hopes Israel will ease restrictions on Gaza
By JTA and ToI Staff
New York Police Department officers secure the Loews Regency hotel, where PM Netanyahu's delegation was headquartered (photo credit: Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)
September 30, 2012, 6:12 pm
Covering Netanyahu in New York on Shabbat? That’s no job for a Jewish boy
When the prime minister squeezes in a trip to the UN on a weekend between Yom Kippur and Sukkot, religious observance can be a real challenge. But not impossible. And I certainly didn’t go hungry
By Raphael Ahren
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