Assemblyman Dov Hikind dove back into Brooklyn’s Hasidic swimming pool wars, sending a letter to the New York City Parks Department that demands it reverse a plan to limit women-only hours at the Metropolitan Recreation Center in Williamsburg. The city Parks Department granted the single-sex swimming hours as an accommodation to the area’s Hasidic women,…
Brooklyn’s most controversial Jewish state legislator has sparked a round of rumors about his political future after his surprising decision to pass his Democratic party position to a 22-year-old Hasidic activist. New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind, who has served in the legislature since 1983, filed papers in late July declining to appear on the…
New York assemblyman Dov Hikind reaffirmed his condemnation of a pro-Palestinian campus group at City University of New York, calling for it to be shut down immediately — while the group’s lawyers pushed back. Students for Justice in Palestine, which is already being investigated following allegations of anti-Semitic behavior, is a prominent voice in the…
Two Jewish New York state assemblymen are calling for the “immediate suspension” of a pro-Palestinian student group from the City University of New York’s campuses — charging that members “stoke the flame of hatred and encourage violence against Jews.” In a Tuesday letter to CUNY, Democrats Dov Hikind and David Weprin, demanded that Students for…
A Brooklyn assemblyman has called on Brooklyn College to discipline the 10 or so students who participated in a protest that interrupted a faculty meeting with anti-Israel statements. “The university needs to act on this and enforce disciplinary action on the students that participated,” state Assemblyman Dov Hikind, a Democrat, said in a statement Thursday….
New York state lawmakers called on the Jewish community to attend the funeral of an assassinated New York police officer. “The brave men and women of the NYPD risk their lives every day to protect us. We value them and stand with them,” Assemblyman Dov Hikind, a Democrat who represents Brooklyn, said in a statement…
A new campaign launched by New York Assemblyman Dov Hikind calls for Nazi war criminals living in the United States to be brought to justice. “Would you be a Nazi’s neighbor?”, the ad asks. The Brooklyn assemblyman, a son of survivors, said that he is committed to pursuing Nazis living in the United States. The…
This article originally appeared in the Forverts and was translated by Frimet Goldberger. Last Thursday, New York Assemblyman Dov Hikind called on Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes to drop the charges against a Hasidic whistleblower of sexual abuse, Sam Kellner. In 2010, Kellner, a Munkacs Hasid, reported that his son had been sexually molested by…
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