(Haaretz) — When 50 members of the grassroots protest group If Not Now arrived at UJA-Federation of New York in the late afternoon gloom last Monday, they were met by a scrum of police and security officers barring their entry into the building.
The giant Hasidic-owned camera store B&H Photo Video is closing the Brooklyn warehouse where workers organized a union in 2015, and where federal investigators allege the company forced Hispanics to use separate bathrooms.
13“The Victims” is one of six plays that will be performed as staged readings as part of Semitic Commonwealth, a performance series at Silk Road Rising, a 14-year-old theater company that will address the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—three from the Jewish-Israeli point of view, and three from the Palestinian. But all six have the same goal.
Authorities in Brooklyn arrested dozens of people, including a number of Jewish landlords and property managers, in a dangerous scheme to install gas meters in buildings where the gas lines had not yet been inspected for safety.
19Donald Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen denied claims charges that appeared in a mysterious dossier posted online Tuesday night.
4Confirmation hearings for Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, have been put off a week.
15Donald Trump’s inauguration is on Friday; the Women’s March is on Saturday, the Jewish day of rest, or Shabbat. What would the rabbis make of it?
101An Upper East Side Manhattan synagogue is in turmoil as an outside foundation seeks to oust its longtime rabbi.
4The largest American Jewish religious organization has “significant concerns” about Donald Trump’s nomination of Senator Jeff Sessions as Attorney General.
10Sheldon Adelson made headlines in early January, when he flew non-stop to Hawaii from Israel in his private jet. The 18-hour flight broke the record for the longest haul from Israel’s Ben Gurion airport.