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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 468

Staten Island

Max Rose poses for a portrait outside his office in Staten Island, New York, October 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
December 6, 2021, 8:01 pm
Former New York congressman Max Rose launches comeback bid
Outspoken Jewish Democrat from Staten Island lost his seat to Republican last year; says he aspires to ‘affordable and fair,’ more unified US
By Luke Tress
Leticia Remauro, a candidate for Staten Island borough president, speaks to the camera during a December 2020 protest at which she yelled "Heil Hitler." (Screenshot via JTA)
January 13, 2021, 10:25 am
GOP politician in Staten Island yells ‘Heil Hitler’ at protest, apologizes
Leticia Remauro says she misspoke and meant to say ‘Mein Fuehrer,’ implying New York leaders were fascists for employing lockdown measures
By Ben Sales
Illustrative: A neo-Nazi tattoo at a rally in Newnan, Georgia, April 21, 2018. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
January 5, 2021, 9:45 pm
Anti-Semitic flyers warning of Jewish ‘war’ posted around NY’s Staten Island
White supremacist group from New Jersey hangs bulletins that falsely claim Antifa was originally ‘a Jewish anti-Nazi militia’
By Ben Sales
A PVC pipe affixed to a telephone pole in the town of Upper Saddle River, New Jersey The pipe helps form an eruv for haredi residents of the area, but non-Jews in the town object to the way the pipes were installed. (Ben Sales via JTA)
May 27, 2019, 8:27 am
After backlash, Staten Island Hasidic Jews remove eruv installed without permits
Residents put up lawn signs appearing to express opposition to ultra-Orthodox influx into area; symbolic boundary for Sabbath-observant Jews installed without required permission
By Marcy Oster
Elaine Luria speaks at a Democratic committee meeting in Norfolk, Va., Feb. 3, 2018. The Navy veteran upset a Republican incumbent to win a House seat. (Ron Kampeas/JTA)
November 7, 2018, 6:39 am
2 Jewish veterans score Democratic upsets in House races
Elaine Luria wins in a Virginia coastal area and Max Rose unseats a Republican in New York’s Staten Island
By JTA
New York police crew members removing a swastika from a garage in Staten Island. (NYPD 23rd Precinct via JTA)
July 27, 2018, 3:50 am
New Yorker jailed for drawing swastika, misspelled slur on home
James Rizzo, credited with time served, said he knew Staten Island family was Jewish by ‘the way they spoke’
By JTA
In this December 23, 2014 file photo, then-Rep. Michael Grimm, center, enters Brooklyn federal court before pleading guilty to a federal tax evasion charge in New York. Grimm doesn't want to talk about his time in prison. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
June 2, 2018, 11:43 pm
In NYC, a Republican ex-con fights to return to Congress
Mike Grimm, who in addition to serving time for tax fraud played a central role in scandals surrounding Israeli Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto, is running without the support of Trump
By Steve Peoples
New York police crew members removing a swastika from a garage in Staten Island. (NYPD 23rd Precinct via JTA)
October 23, 2017, 8:29 pm
‘Kyke’ vandal suspect knew neighbors were Jewish by ‘way they spoke’
James Rizzo paints a swastika along with misspelled slur on garage door of Staten Island home
By JTA
Illustrative: Swastika graffiti. (Flash 90)
October 20, 2017, 5:15 am
Jewish woman plans to leave swastika vandalism on her garage
Debra Calabrese of Staten Island says she wants people to see anti-Semitic messages painted on her home
By JTA
Boyd Melson at Mendez Boxing. (Cathryn J. Prince/Times of Israel)
September 10, 2017, 11:20 am
Jewish boxer tosses hat in congressional ring to knock out addiction
Retired US Army captain Boyd Melson bobs and weaves with well-funded Republican incumbent in hopes of becoming Staten Island’s 11th district representative
By Cathryn J. Prince
Advertisement for Kars4Kids (Screen capture: YouTube)
October 19, 2016, 5:40 pm
Staten Island synagogue feuds with Kars4Kids entity
Congregation claims in court that outreach organization is channeling funds through the temple to avoid public scrutiny
By JTA
Artist Joseph Reginella poses for a photo, in the Staten Island borough of New York, with the cast bronze faux monument dedicated to the memory of the victims of the steam ferry Cornelius G. Kolff, on Sept. 29, 2016 (AP Photo/ Ula Ilnytzky )
October 3, 2016, 4:05 am
NY tourists fooled by octopus ferry disaster hoax
Artist creates roaming monument, website and fake documentary in an elaborate ruse crafting a catastrophe that never happened
By Ula Ilnytzky
Supporter Pat Montelli, left, and friend Catherine Freeman, right, take a photograph with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at a campaign rally Sunday, April 17, 2016, in the Staten Island borough of New York. (AP/Mel Evans)
April 18, 2016, 5:17 am
Trump, on Staten Island, finally gets his NYC homecoming
New York’s self-proclaimed ‘forgotten borough’ is a hidden bastion of Republicanism in one of nation’s most liberal cities
By Jonathan Lemire
Illustrative: Hasidic Jews in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. (Illustrative photo: CC BY rutlo, Flickr)
June 22, 2015, 11:55 pm
3 teens charged in alleged anti-Semitic incident in NY
Suspects accused of hate crime after hurling stones at kippa-clad Jewish doctor, threatening to kill him
By JTA
Rabbi Dovid Winiarz, also known as the "Facebuker Rebbe," killed in a car accident January 18, 2015 (screen capture: YouTube)
January 20, 2015, 1:38 am
Popular NY outreach rabbi killed in car accident
Dovid Winiarz, also known as Facebuker Rebbe for his social media efforts, leaves behind 10 children
By JTA
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