Brooklyn

At least eight shot, including four children, during New York Fourth of July celebrations

Seven of the victims are in stable condition, while the eighth, a 21-year-old woman, is in critical condition.

JULY 5, 2026|ByREUTERS, MIRIAM SELA-EITAM

An ambulance in traffic, as the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary on Independence Day in New York City, US, July 4, 2026

Judah Gribetz, center, huddled with Gov. Hugh L. Carey, left, and Mayor Abraham D. Beame, right, during a meeting of New York’s Emergency Financial Control Board in 1977.

Judah Gribetz, lawyer and counsel behind landmark Holocaust restitution plan, dies at 97

Gribetz was best known for creating a plan that distributed $1.288 billion in restitution to victims of the Holocaust.

JULY 3, 2026|ByARIELLA ROITMAN

New York Police Department officers in the Bronx borough of New York City, US, May 16, 2023.

Man known to police, security enters Brooklyn Chabad with knife, bat is removed by bystander

The man, who is apparently not Jewish, entered the building wearing a kippah and holding a knife and a bat, was promptly confronted by worshippers and bystanders, and was removed from the building.

JULY 2, 2026|ByYOAV ETIEL, JERUSALEM POST STAFF

The exterior of the Park Slope Food Coop in Brooklyn.

Israeli Brand ecoLove among casualties of Brooklyn boycott: 'They boycotted our shampoo'

Sharona Romano Lazar, the company’s owner, says she is struggling to make sense of the situation.

JUNE 18, 2026|ByALAN ROSENBAUM

Former head of Jewish security patrol in Brooklyn pleads guilty to sex crime involving a teenager

The guilty plea comes more than five years after Daskal was first arrested and charged with sex crimes related to the alleged abuse of a girl.

JULY 17, 2023ByPHILISSA CRAMER/JTA

A handcuffed suspect waits at the magistrates court.

ADL offering $50,000 reward for tips on 1994 NYC murder

Ari Halberstam, 16, was murdered on the Brooklyn Bridge in 1994 by Rashid Baz, who also fired upon 14 other Jewish teens in a van.

JULY 11, 2023ByHALEY COHEN

Participants in a Jewish solidarity march across New York City's Brooklyn Bridge, Jan. 5, 2020. The march in the city was held in response to a recent rise in anti-Semitic crimes in the New York metropolitan area. (Jeenah Moon/Getty Images)

Jewish journalist sues bar for refusing to serve him

Conservative journalist Elad Eliahu, 29, was reportedly on a first date last month in Brooklyn when a bartender allegedly told him to leave while calling him a "Zionist fascist."

MAY 1, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Six NYC Council members reject establishment of 'End Jew Hatred Day'

Among those on the 51-member council who did not support the measure was Shahana Hanif, a representative of the heavily Jewish Brooklyn neighborhoods of Borough Park and Park Slope.

APRIL 28, 2023ByHALEY COHEN

End Jew Hatred Protest in NYC, held in front of the public library. (End Jew Hatred)

A new dance club in Williamsburg is bringing Tel Aviv party culture to Brooklyn

Some of the biggest night club venues in Brooklyn can hold thousands of people. Silo, by contrast, holds only 500, which carries a more intimate feel.

MARCH 14, 2023ByJACOB HENRY/JTA

Ellen Lapidus Stern: The aliyah story of the well-known Israeli artist

Lapidus Stern is well known in Israel and internationally for her colorful and imaginative oil paintings. Many of them are on permanent exhibition, others in private collections.

MARCH 4, 2023BySUSAN DE LA FUENTE

WITH ‘HADAR,’ a five-meter-high oil on canvas, now on display at the Jerusalem Municipality.

Man hit by truck driver in Brooklyn rampage dies of head injury

62-year-old Weng Sor of Las Vegas has been accused of deliberately plowing into pedestrians and bike riders in multiple locations in Monday's rampage through two Brooklyn neighborhoods.

FEBRUARY 15, 2023ByREUTERS