Since she was a five-year-old on her school’s playground, Sofie Glassman has been encountering antisemitism.
“A girl told me I wasn’t allowed to play with her because I was …
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Reported by Hernesto Galdamez, LI Herald
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5/18/23
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Rep. George Santos was arrested this morning, turning himself in on a 13-count indictment accusing him of wire fraud, money laundering, theft of public funds, and making materially false …
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By LI Herald Staff
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5/10/23
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A two-day celebration is hardly enough when cheering the 75th anniversary of the modern Jewish state. While there were blowout affairs last Wednesday (on 5 Iyar, Israel’s Hebrew-calendar …
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5/3/23
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Monday evening’s Greater Five Towns Community Yom Hashoah Memorial Service for the Six Million, at Beth Sholom in Lawrence, featured a keynote address by survivor Esia Friedman. The evening …
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By The Jewish Star
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4/19/23
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A woman pushed her shopping cart down an aisle filled with Passover foods in a supermarket in northern New Jersey. She lifted a box of kosher-for-Passover soup mandle off the shelf and started to …
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By Faygie Holt, JNS
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3/29/23
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Two incidents of swastikas found in the Woodmere Middle School boys’ bathroom on March 14 and 16 prompted the school to bring a visitor to speak to the sixth- and seventh-graders last week in …
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By Kepherd Daniel, Nassau Herald
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3/29/23
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A legal-aid agency in New York City with a history of anti-Israel bias reached a settlement with a former Jewish employee, who claims that she was harassed and treated so poorly that she had to quit …
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By Faygie Holt, JNS
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3/22/23
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The editor-in-chief of the Jewish Press at the time of the Capitol riot was arrested last week and charged with interfering with law enforcement during the Jan. 6, 2021, violence.
Elliot Resnick, …
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3/22/23
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State Attorney General Letitia James is alerting New Yorkers to be cautious of discriminatory pricing practices at car washes in advance of Passover. In previous years, car wash businesses in …
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3/22/23
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My friend Judy Heumann died March 4 in Washington DC, where she lived. Her name might not mean too much to many of you. But to thousands — and I do meant thousands — of people who …
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By James Bernstein, Long Beach Herald
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3/22/23
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