Brooklyn

Pakistani pleads guilty to planning ISIS-inspired Oct. 7 anniversary terror attack on NYC's Jews

Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, also known as Shahzeb Jadoon, had been charged with planning an ISIS-inspired attack on New York's Jewry on the one-year anniversary of the October 7 massacre.

Muhammad Shahzeb Khan
BROOKLYN NETS rookie guard Ben Saraf drives for a layup against fellow Israeli Deni Avdija of the Portland Trail Blazers during their teams’ duel in New York.

Blue-and-white in Brooklyn: Avdija, Saraf shine during historic night for Israeli hoops

Brooklyn Navy Yard at the front entrance, January 23, 2019.

Brooklyn Navy Yard evicts NYC drone maker Easy Aerial over alleged Israel ties

Female emissaries of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement gather for a group photo in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, on Feb. 6, 2026.

From far corners of the Jewish world, the women of Chabad gather in freezing Brooklyn


Vandals graffiti swastikas on Brooklyn Jewish school, sparking outrage, blame

The NYPD became aware of the graffiti on a Magen David Yeshiva school in Brooklyn in the morning after the election.

Swastika graffitied on Magen David Yeshiva school in Brooklyn, November 5, 2025.

Zohran Mamdani is not antisemitic, Satmar's Brooklyn leadership says

NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is a liberal muslim, and not antisemitic, Satmar's Williamsburg, Brooklyn, community leadership wrote in newsletter Der Blatt.

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani (R) visits a sukkah of Satmar community leaders in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, October 10, 2025; illustrative.

As Greenpoint’s Jewish community grows, so does this shul’s Hebrew school

Greenpoint, Brooklyn, an area once lacking in Jewish life, is now becoming a thriving community.

Yoni Kretzmer (standing) teaches the children at the Greenpoint Shul's newly incorporated Hebrew school.

Jewish Holocaust survivor beaten to death, nursing home roommate charged

Nina Kravtsov was from a small Ukrainian town. She was forced into a ghetto with several other family members when her town was invaded.

Kings County Supreme Court building. (illustrative)

Luigi Mangione wins dismissal of some counts over killing US health insurance executive

While the killing of Thompson was also widely condemned by public officials across the political spectrum, Mangione has become a folk hero to some Americans who decry steep healthcare costs.

Luigi Mangione, accused of murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, appears in Manhattan Supreme Court earlier this year.

Ahead of election, Brooklyn synagogue demands voter registration to attend High Holiday services

By tying holiday seating to voter registration, Shaare Zion is in effect launching one of the more sweeping Jewish voter-registration campaigns ever attempted by any religious institution in New York

Congregation Shaare Zion in Gravesend, Brooklyn, is requiring proof of voter registration for High Holiday attendance ahead of New York City’s 2025 mayoral election.

Robert Jay Lifton, pioneering scholar of Nazi doctors and Jewish memory, dies at 99

Robert Jay Lifton, whose work on genocide psychology reshaped Holocaust studies and Jewish thought for decades, died at his home in Massachusetts at 99.

Robert Jay Lifton in a 2009 documentary based on his book, "The Nazi Doctors."

From Brooklyn to Jerusalem: Dr. Yehuda Resiman's back and forth journey

Now he’s truly home. And although he is unhappy with Israel’s current political leadership, he’s not leaving again. 

YEHUDA REISMAN with a mother and child in Haiti, one year after the earthquake.

Three dead, eight wounded after mass shooting in Brooklyn

NYPD Commissioner Jessica S. Tisch named the victims as one man in his mid-20s, one man in his 30s, and one man whose age is unconfirmed. 

Officer work at the scene in Crown Heights, Brooklyn on August 17, 2025.

The aliyah story of Shirelle Weingarten, a scrunchie connoisseur

For Weingarten, this journey has been far from linear – it’s been a series of bold decisions, personal growth, and an unwavering commitment to finding her place in Israel.

BLENDING A nursing career with a thriving business