admin | January 11, 2020
I have friends who leap, screeching with joy, whenever the opportunity to don fancy dress presents itself. They are willing to go the full overblown hog at a moments notice weird and wonderful colours and shapes and headgear and make-up are suddenly magicked up from some secret stash
admin | January 7, 2020
One Thursday night in late November, New York Citys incoming police commissioner, Dermot Shea, days away from his official swearing-in, arrived in central Brooklyn for a meeting with representatives of the citys embattled Jewish community. More than 200 people turned out for the event, including a delegation of local cops, several members of the departments top brass, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez, and representing the public, over a hundred Jews, the primary target of New Yorks dramatic increase in hate crimes, who came from across the citys different sects and denominations. The event did not take place at one of Manhattans grand old synagogues, or in the midtown offices of a prominent Jewish organization, or even at the iconic headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement in Brooklyn
admin | January 6, 2020
MONSEY, N.Y. (WCBS 880) Police say the suspect in the Hanukkah stabbing attack at a rabbis home in Monsey had previously been questioned by officers in connection with another stabbing of an Orthodox Jewish man. Grafton Thomas, 37, was accused in November by Rampo Police after officers followed a lead back to him, following the stabbing of a Hasidic man.
admin | January 6, 2020
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The man accused of going on a stabbing rampage at the New York-area home of a Hasidic rabbi during a Hanukkah celebration was indicted on Friday on six counts of attempted murder, up from five counts the suspect was charged with previously. The indictment also charges Grafton Thomas, 37, with three counts of assault, three counts of attempted assault and two counts of burglary stemming from the Dec.
admin | January 4, 2020
MONSEY, N.Y. (JTA) A short while after the worst anti-Semitic attack ever carried out against haredi Orthodox Jews in New York, those present in the Forshay neighborhood of Monsey witnessed an unbelievable scene. At Congregation Netzach Yisroel, the synagogue attached to the rabbis house in which the horrific attack took place, the Rebbe of Koson, Rabbi Chaim Rottenberg, sat down to celebrate a Hanukkah and Melave Malkah Tish
admin | January 4, 2020
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admin | January 4, 2020
Two women yelled F*** you Jew and I will kill you Jews at a Hasidic man in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and shoved him to the ground when he tried to film their anti-Semitic tirade, law enforcement sources and witnesses told CBS12. The 22 year-old victim was approached by a 24- and 34-year-old female at the intersection of Broadway and Lorimer Street, the New York City Police Department told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. The 24 year-old grabbed the victims cell phone and punched him in his throat and the 34 year-old made anti-Semitic remarks, according to the NYPD
admin | January 4, 2020
Five members of an ultra-Orthodox Hasidic Jewish congregation were stabbed on Saturday night by a man wielding a machete-type knife who barged into a Hanukkah celebration at a rabbi's home in a New York City suburb and attacked victims at random, police and witnesses said.
admin | January 4, 2020
NEW YORK (WCBS 880) The NYPD is investigating surveillance videos of Orthodox Jews being attacked in Brooklyn over the course of an hour this weekthe latest in a series of street attacks on members of the Jewish community in recent weeks. The attacks took place in Crown Heights on Christmas Eve. There have been roughly a dozen such attacks in the city over the past week and a half
admin | January 4, 2020
A private truck filled with armed security officers will start roaming around Rockland County to help protect local synagogues after Saturday nights attack on a Hanukkah celebration, officials said Monday. The move was announced during a press conference at which several relatives of suspect Grafton Thomas made a surprise appearance in the audience, WPIX-TV reported. The relatives did not speak.
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