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Chasidic all-volunteer security force
Ben Sales, JTAJan 23, 2020
MONSEY, NY — Eleven days after a man barged into a rabbi’s home on Chanukah here and stabbed five Jews, Josef Margaretten was patrolling this chasidic neighborhood...
Democratic candidates’ positions on Iran
Ron Kampeas, JTAJan 23, 2020
WASHINGTON — Based on the last Democratic presidential debate and, in Elizabeth Warren’s case other sources, the candidates think that President Donald Trump made a...
Krav Maga a way to confront anti-Semitism
JNSJan 23, 2020
By Eliana Rudee Just one month before the deadliest anti-Semitic mass shooting in American history on Oct. 27, 2018, which took the lives of 11 Jewish worshippers in a...
Greenblatt’s Middle East ‘exit interview’
Josefin Dolsten, JTAJan 16, 2020
TEANECK, NJ — Jason Greenblatt, President Donald Trump’s former Middle East negotiator, made his first public speech since leaving the White House on Sunday night,...
Rabbi Rottenberg delivers invocation at Gov. Cuomo’s State of the State
Ben Sales, JTAJan 16, 2020
NEW YORK — Rabbi Chaim Rottenberg, whose home was the site of a stabbing last month on the holiday of Chanukah, delivered an invocation at Governor Andrew Cuomo’s...
25,000 march against anti-Semitism in NY rally
Ben Sales, JTAJan 09, 2020
NEW YORK — An estimated 25,000 people marched across the Brooklyn Bridge and held a rally on Sunday, Jan. 5, to protest rising anti-Semitism in and around New York...
Again. This time, Monsey
Ben Sales, JTAJan 02, 2020
MONSEY, NY— A man wielding a machete walked into a rabbi’s home in Monsey, NY and stabbed five people. The Orthodox Jewish Public Affairs Council of the Hudson...
Jews, blacks, join charity drive in Jersey City
JTAJan 02, 2020
JERSEY CITY — All day Monday, volunteers trickled in and out of the Mary McLeod Bethune Life Center in Jersey City’s Greenville neighborhood, lining up boxes upon...
Rise, fall, rise of a Chicago Jewish neighborhood
Ben Sales, JTADec 26, 2019
CHICAGO — Decades ago, Congregation Ner Tamid would fill to capacity on the High Holidays, spilling over into three separate services to accommodate 1,000 worshippers....
An impeachment chronicle
Ron Kampeas, JTADec 26, 2019
WASHINGTON — For the third time in the Republic’s history, the US House of Representatives impeached a president. There were a number of firsts on Dec. 18: Donald...
