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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 346

Williamsburg

Volunteers sorts broken pieces of matzah as workers prepare meals at a nonprofit soup kitchen for the beginning of Passover celebrations in Brooklyn, New York on March 26, 2021. (Kena Betancur / AFP)
December 20, 2023, 12:50 pm
Brooklyn man sentenced to prison for robbing matzah factory weeks before Passover
Muntaquim Durant, 44, stole cash and checks worth over $94,000 from the Satmar Matzah Bakery
By Luke Tress
Illustrative: Rabbanit Dasi Fruchter, of the South Philadelphia Shtiebel, lights a menorah during a public Hanukkah celebration and menorah lighting ceremony in South Philadelphia on Sunday, Dec. 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Ryan Collerd)
December 5, 2023, 8:21 am
Reported cancellation of Virginia menorah lighting draws rebuke from governor
Art festival founder says Hanukkah ceremony could be seen as choosing sides in Israel-Hamas war; organizers say lighting also rejected to keep art festival event religion-free
By AP and ToI Staff
NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell gave a press conference in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Aug. 29, 2022, to discuss increasing the local police presence and announce arrests in antisemitic hate crime incidents. (WMSGB via JTA)
August 31, 2022, 6:31 am
NYPD to up patrols around Williamsburg synagogues amid rise in antisemitic attacks
‘It is believed these victims were targeted because they’re Jewish,’ police commissioner says, in press conference at site where suspect allegedly slapped Haredi man days earlier
By Jacob Henry
Illustrative image: School buses lined up in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn on April 24, 2019. (Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images/JTA)
June 10, 2022, 8:20 am
NY Supreme Court sides with mother opposed to curriculum at son’s Brooklyn yeshiva
Judge upholds appeal by woman from member of borough’s Hasidic community who says her son was denied an adequate secular education
By julia GERGELY
A Satmar Orthodox man volunteers to deliver free food provided by Met Council at a distribution center at the Brooklyn Navy Yard run by the United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg, on April 10, 2022. (Jacob Henry/JTA)
April 18, 2022, 3:06 am
In Brooklyn, some rabbis ask followers to turn down free food from ‘Zionists’
A faction within Williamsburg’s Satmar Hasidic community is warning followers not to accept holiday charity from Met Council because it holds ‘all the abominations of the world’
By Jacob Henry
Illustrative image: School buses lined up in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn on April 24, 2019. (Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images/JTA)
August 19, 2021, 9:41 am
Census data shows Orthodox Jewish areas of NY, NJ are among fastest growing
In New Jersey, the heavily ultra-Orthodox town of Lakewood is growing at the highest rate of any city in the state
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Illustrative: Pedestrians walk near the Yeshiva Kehilath Yakov School in the South Williamsburg neighborhood, April 9, 2019, in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
June 10, 2021, 1:56 am
In NYC’s hipster mecca of Williamsburg, Hasidic Jews are the real counterculture
The authors of new book ‘A Fortress in Brooklyn’ say Hasidim represent an alternate version of the assimilated ‘New York Jew’ in an old-new shtetl that’s a purely American creation
By Shira Hanau
Illustrative: A Jewish man crosses a street in a Haredi Jewish area in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on April 9, 2019 in New York City. (Johannes Eisele/AFP)
March 27, 2021, 3:55 am
Brooklyn Hasidic rabbi said under investigation over alleged child marriages
Report says NYPD looking into allegations Rabbi Yoel Roth arranged marriages for minors as young as 15
By Shira Hanau
A man walks past a sign advertising the services of ParCare Community Health Care Network in front of the company's facility in the Williamsburg neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York, December 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
December 29, 2020, 2:04 am
Cuomo vows consequences for vaccine fraud as ParCare clinics investigated in NY
New York governor says violators of vaccination guidelines ‘will be prosecuted’ after clinics serving New York ultra-Orthodox community are accused of breaking rules
By Shira Hanau
A photo posted to Twitter on December 21, 2020 showed Gary Schlesinger, CEO of ParCare Community Health Network, receiving the coronavirus vaccine. (Twitter via JTA)
December 27, 2020, 7:50 am
NY probes clinics serving ultra-Orthodox community over possible vaccine fraud
State health commissioner says ParCare Community Health Network may have obtained COVID-19 shots ‘fraudulently,’ given doses to members of the public ‘contrary to the state’s plan’
By Shira Hanau
The US Supreme Court building in Washington, May 3, 2020. (AP Photo/ Patrick Semansky)
November 26, 2020, 11:25 am
US Supreme Court rules against coronavirus limitations on New York synagogues
Court strikes down governor’s ‘Cluster Initiative,’ which limited numbers of worshipers in high-infection areas; Amy Coney Barrett crucial to 5-4 ruling
By Jessica Gresko
People walk through Williamsburg, one of several Orthodox neighborhoods in Brooklyn with rising COVID-19 rates, on October 1, 2020. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
November 22, 2020, 10:05 pm
Satmar Hasidim hid massive Brooklyn wedding from public view – report
Ceremony for grandson of Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum attended by thousands, arranged to avoid detection by secular authorities, according to New York Post
By PHILISSA CRAMER
A small caravan of trump supporters park at a polling station in Public School 160, on November 3, 2020 in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (David Dee Delgado/Getty Images/AFP)
November 4, 2020, 12:18 am
Same city, different views: Jews in Manhattan, Brooklyn cast their ballots
Jews of Upper West Side hope to send Trump packing, while just 30 minutes away, Satmar Hasidim say backing incumbent is a ‘mitzvah’
By Jacob Magid
Congregation Yetev Lev D'Satmar in Brooklyn, New York. (Google Street View)
October 18, 2020, 11:44 pm
Satmar wedding of ‘10,000’ made family-only after NY officials block it
Synagogue says it had always been the plan to keep event limited to relatives, but a public reception afterwards was called off, given the virus crackdown
By JTA and ToI Staff
Illustrative: An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man walks with his daughters in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, Tuesday, April 7, 2020 (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
October 18, 2020, 1:22 am
New York said to halt planned Orthodox Jewish wedding with up to 10,000 guests
Amid COVID-19 restrictions and unrest in Orthodox neighborhoods, Governor Cuomo says: ‘You can get married. You just can’t get a thousand people at your wedding’
By ToI Staff and AFP
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