Synagogues face tough COVID questions (again) as Omicron surges
Congregations have taken a range of approaches to the spiking case counts, and decreased severity, of the virus.
Jake Cohen, Jewish food influencer, named in discrimination suit targeting food media company Feedfeed
The plaintiffs accuse Cohen of treating them like maids, shouting at them and making offensive comments.
Fighting anti-vaxxers among Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jews, nurses write a 140-page rebuttal
Launched before COVID and focusing on measles, mumps and rubella, a pamphlet makes the case for science over misinformation.
As COVID spikes in NYC, Jewish schools and synagogues are going remote again
Some of the announcements of closures referred to the decisions schools and synagogues made to close in March 2020.
Brad Lander, NYC’s next comptroller, says he will push Orthodox yeshivas to teach secular subjects
Lander, a Jewish Democrat, has long represented a section of Brooklyn with a large Jewish population.
Dozens of rabbis call on City Council to end solitary confinement in NYC jails
The letter was signed by 65 rabbis and cantors, including several of the city’s most prominent Jewish clergy.
Former champ Yuri Foreman is now the ‘Vegan Boxing Rabbi,’ certifying kosher doughnuts
Foreman now runs VBR Kosher, a vegan kosher certification agency, with his wife, Shoshana.
An anti-vaccine ad by an Orthodox group briefly took over a Crown Heights bus stop
The anti-vaccine ad copied the diction and format of a Jewish pro-vaccine campaign.
The Hamptons home where Adrien Brody lived on ‘Succession’ was actually owned by a Jewish millionaire — and has that mezuzah
Jewish aerospace entrepreneur David Susser and his wife, Marla, sold the three-acre estate for $45 million.
44 games into its winning streak, Yeshiva U’s basketball team is now No. 1 in NCAA’s Division III
The Macs’ star guard Ryan Turell, a senior, was also named Division III National Player of the Week on Tuesday.