Read this article in Yiddish here. MONSEY, N.Y. — Last week, the phrase on the lips of many Jews in Rockland County, New York, was “hate crime.” Just before 6 a.m. on Wednesday, a man jumped out of a car on a quiet residential street in the heart of Monsey, the suburban Hasidic haven, and…
This is a developing story. NEW YORK (JTA) — An Orthodox man was stabbed multiple times on his walk to synagogue for morning prayers. The man was approaching the synagogue, Toshnad Heichel Torah Utfila in Spring Valley, New York, when at least one man got out of a car, began beating him and stabbed him….
The leader of the Republican Party chapter in Rockland County, New York vowed to re-air a campaign ad that it deleted from its Facebook page after being criticized for anti-Semitism, the New York Post reported Thursday. The video, titled “A Storm is Coming,” claimed that local legislator Aron Wieder, who is an Orthodox Jew, and…
Updated 11:45 a.m. The Republican Party chapter in a New York county with a growing Jewish population posted a campaign video on Wednesday that was widely condemned as anti-Semitic. Rockland County, about an hour north of New York City, has been the site of tensions for years between longtime locals and the quickly-growing Orthodox Jewish…
New York City is experiencing the largest measles outbreak in recent history, but the state of emergency Mayor Bill de Blasio called earlier this month was limited only to ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods in Brooklyn. The first case was reported in Brooklyn in September, and as of last week, more than 300 cases have been confirmed — and…
Esperanza, a domestic worker in a suburb of New York City, cleans the homes of four ultra-Orthodox families every week for $12 an hour. About a month ago, the mother of one of the families called Esperanza and told her not to come: All seven of her children, including her seven-month-old baby girl, had measles….
A woman wearing a yellow star was seen at a rally Thursday opposing a state of emergency to fight the spread of measles in Rockland County, New York, Lohud.com reported. The woman was part of a small protest in the Palisades Center mall in West Nyack, New York, only a few minutes’ drive from the…
The owners of a Jewish summer camp in New York have sued the Rockland County Health Department for discriminating against their business because they are ultra-Orthodox Jews, The Journal News reported. The lawsuit, filed by camp owners Ephraim and Rivka Weissmandl, also includes a complaint accusing an agency inspector of making sexual comments toward her….
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