Brooklyn

US court rejects Mamdani's attempt to block real-estate deal involving Israeli-owned company

The deal is valued at $451 million and includes more than 5,000 apartments across 90 buildings, most of them subject to rent regulation.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani announces the appointment of Christine Clarke as chair and commissioner for the New York City Commission on Human Rights at Diversity Plaza in Jackson Heights, Queens in New York City, New York
Interior of the Kingsbrook Synagogue.

Gov. Hochul says she stepped in to block demolition of historic Brooklyn shul

 A New York City Police (NYPD) vehicle drives on the corner where a 13-year-old boy was found after being shot and killed, in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, US, March 1, 2024.

Jewish man hospitalized after stabbing near Chabad headquarters in Crown Heights

Some Chabad chapters shared the photo of Mamdani at the Lubavitcher Rebbe's gravesite, known as the Ohel.

NYC mayor elect Zohran Mamdani visits Chabad Ohel after Sydney Hanukkah attack


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.

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.

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.

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.

 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%.

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.

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.

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.

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.

 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.

Israeli kebab