Brooklyn

Mamdani to appoint anti-Israel JVP rabbi to taxpayer-funded city hall faith liaison role

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani appointed Rabbi Miriam Grossman, linked to Jewish Voice for Peace, to a city faith liaison role, raising concerns over anti-Israel affiliations.

|ByMATHILDA HELLER
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani delivers his 100 Days Address, a speech dedicated to outline the progress made on his core campaign promises since taking office, in Queens, New York City, US, April 12, 2026.
Photographs Maniac Murder Cult members shared on their Telegram channel from the criminal complaint, November 17, 2025.

White supremacist leader sentenced to 15 years in prison for plot to poison NYC Jewish kids

National Security Assistant Attorney General John Eisenberg said in a Wednesday statement that the sentencing of Chkhikvishvili had taken "a monster off our streets."

|ByMICHAEL STARR
Rabbi Nahum Israel Ober.

Brooklyn hasidic Jew found dead in remote area of Colombia, ZAKA working to repatriate body

Reports suggest that the body of 51-year-old Rabbi Nachum Israel Auer was found in a desecrated state, but investigators are still piecing together the details.

|ByYOAV ETIEL
A New York City Police Department (NYPD) vehicle is seen outside the Israeli Consulate building in Manhattan, New York City, US, May 22, 2025

Man with Iranian flag shirt charged in Brooklyn hate crime assaults on three Jews

Forty-one-year-old Andrze Wnuk was charged with three hate crime assaults, said the NYPD, after the force responded to reports of multiple assaults.

|ByMICHAEL STARR

Transgender teacher outed, fired by Brooklyn Jewish day school

One week after landing a new job, Talia Avrahami was out of the job after a firestorm erupted about the fact that she is transgender.

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022ByJACKIE HAJDENBERG/JTA
Orthodox Jewish children get off a Yeshiva school bus, as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio declared a public health emergency in parts of Brooklyn in response to a measles outbreak, in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City, US, April 9, 2019.

Brooklyn woman knocks hat off Orthodox Jewish man

The suspect was arrested on Saturday night by NYPD with assistance from volunteer safety patrol group Boro Park Shomrim.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022ByHALEY COHEN
Illustrative photo: Residents of Borough Park in Brooklyn, last month.

Three children found dead on New York's Coney Island beach

New York City officers discovered a 4-year-old girl, a 7-year-old boy and a 3-month-old girl near the water's edge on the Coney Island beach.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022ByREUTERS
New York Police Department by the Fifth Avenue Synagogue

WATCH: 'Comedian' becomes butt of joke when Jews he harassed turn the tables

"I'm about to go to some Jews right now asking how they feel about Palestine," said Comedian Abdullah Almasmari, stage name Dulla Mulla.

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Demonstrators take part in protests outside a meeting of the National Executive of Britain's Labour Party which will discuss the party's definition of antisemitism, in London

NYPD to increase patrols in Williamsburg due to rise in antisemitic hate crimes

Arrests by the Hate Crimes Task Force are up more than 100% this year, with arrests for attacks on Jewish New Yorkers up by 45%.

AUGUST 31, 2022ByJACOB HENRY/JTA
Residents of Hasidic Williamsburg have largely returned to pre-pandemic life, as seen on Sept. 29, 2020.

The Catskills meet Mount Sinai at a night of Jewish comedy - opinion

The comics Elon Gold and Modi emceed the festival, and together and separately went about as deep as you could go into the mindset of engaged Jews like me without speaking Yiddish or Hebrew.

AUGUST 22, 2022ByANDREW SILOW-CARROLL / JTA
Comedians Modi, left, and Elon Gold onstage at the Chosen Comedy Festival, Coney Island, NYC, Aug. 16, 2022.

Brooklyn man arrested outside home of Iranian dissident journalist

Khalid Mehdiyev, 23, loaded his assault rifle before approaching the area of the journalist's home.

AUGUST 1, 2022ByGADI ZAIG
Masih Alinejad, Iranian journalist and women's rights activist, speaks on stage at the Women In The World Summit in New York, U.S, April 12, 2019.

Brooklyn Hasidic man gang beaten in front of five-year-old son

A Hasidic man was violently beaten by three men in Brooklyn following parking altercation. The victim’s five-year-old son was in the car when his father was attacked.

JULY 15, 2022ByALDEN TABAC
On the streets of Brooklyn's Crown Heights neighborhood

Baruch Lebovits, convicted Hassidic child abuser, dies at 71

Baruch Lebovits, a cantor from a prominent Hasidic family whose child abuse conviction shook up both his community and Brooklyn politics has died.

JULY 6, 2022ByPHILISSA CRAMER/JTA
The body of Baruch Lebovits, a convicted child abuser, is visible at his funeral in Jerusalem, July 4, 2022.

NY Israeli-style grill Laser Wolf named 'restaurant of the summer' by New York Post

According to a review of the restaurant, the high prices are worth the view alone.

JUNE 19, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Israeli kebab