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Cameron Kasky: Jewish progressive running for Congress after West Bank solidarity mission

Kasky, the Jewish Parkland school shooting survivor and gun control activist, said in an interview that his stance on Israel doesn’t make him an outlier.

Congressional candidate Cameron Kasky playing soccer with a Palestinian child during his trip to the West Bank, Dec. 2025.
The torah dedication ceremony at Kehillat Harlem on Aug. 31, 2025.

At a former driving school, Kehillat Harlem plants roots for Jewish life uptown

 Rabbi Cosgrove

Diaspora Jewish leadership is speaking a language the world no longer understands - opinion

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro being walked in custody down a hallway at the offices of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in New York City, U.S., January 3, 2026.

Orthodox Jewish judge to preside over Maduro's criminal proceedings in NY


Fired NY Rabbi says accusations of synagogue coup are 'hurtful'

Schneier’s allies accused Goldschmidt of inappropriately sharing synagogue members’ email addresses and of orchestrating a coup to replace Schneier, 91, who has led the synagogue for nearly 60 years.

 Park East Synagogue

Sunrise NYC rejects decision by DC affiliate to shun ‘Zionist’ partners

NYC Rally (Credit: David Abadie)

Reporter’s Notebook: Bennett went to KJ, a shul with a special place in his heart, for the holiday

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett prayed at the legendary Kehilat Jeshurun synagogue in Manhattan on the holiday.

 Israel's Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is seen praying during his visit to Washington, on August 25, 2021.

For Bennett, a friendly crowd at a New York shul

Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun – packed with a crowd of nearly 200 select members – welcomed back Bennett, who marked 100 days in office last week, and his staff.

 Israel's Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks during the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, September 5, 2021.

Tel Aviv’s Sherry Herring sandwich shop to open in Manhattan

The original Sherry Herring store is located in Shuk HaNamal, an outdoor food market established in 2010 at the Tel Aviv port.

Rocco’s Italian-American Sandwich Shop

Video of Jewish NYC City Council candidate in BDSM exposed on Twitter

"I didn't want anyone to see that, but here we are," said the city council candidate about the leaked video.

A tugboat passes the midtown Manhattan skyline on the Hudson River in the early morning in New York City

Leading Manhattan DA candidate reportedly paid no federal income taxes

Tali Farhadian Weinstein – who, if elected, would take over the investigation relating to former President Trump’s taxes – reported income as high as $107 million but paid no federal income taxes.

Tali Farhadian Weinstein entered the race for Manhattan district attorney earlier this month. The lawyer, who immigrated from Iran as a child after the Iranian revolution, describes herself as a progressive prosecutor.

WATCH: Pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian protesters clash in Times Square

Protests had later escalated to violence, with the NYPD arresting multiple protesters in Times Square.

An Iranian man holds a Palestinian flag during a protest to express solidarity with the Palestinian people amid a flare-up of Israeli-Palestinian violence, in Tehran, Iran May 18, 2021.

Bukharian 24-year-old aims for NYC’s City Council

“The community is very conservative,” the 24-year-old said in an interview on Queens Boulevard and 63rd Drive.

Kalyan ensemble in Bukhara, Uzbekistan

Morris Dickstein, literary critic and public intellectual, dies at 81

A longtime professor of Eng­lish and the­ater at the City University of New York, Dickstein was one of the last survivors of a generation of “New York intellectuals."

Influential critic Morris Dickstein was born in the Lower East Side and attended Jewish schools.