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A new congressional district map drawn up by a court-named special master has set off clashes among fellow Democrats, with one lawmaker fuming at DCCC chair Sean Patrick Maloney.

Governor Kathy Hochul and state legislative leaders pushed through a $220 billion budget more than one week late and included policy issues in the fiscal plan.

‘Survivors of the Holocaust should not at all be having to worry about fees that are tacked on to the reparations that they so justly deserve.

Behind the efforts to create a “Super Jewish” district to give a member of the Hasidic community in upstate NY a shot at a seat in state Assembly

Photo Credit: Facebook Assemblyman Simcha Eichenstein (left) on the scene after several Jews were harassed near the Agudath Israel of Sixteenth Avenue in Borough Park, talking to several NYPD police officers, including Deputy Inspector Richie Taylor (far right). Jewish community leaders from Agudath Israel of America met with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio for 90 minutes Friday afternoon, May 21 st, in a hastily called meeting to discuss the spate of hate crimes erupting against Jews in hig...

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Monday there was a national guns problem when asked if there was a nationwide crime problem.

Fox News chief correspondent Jonathan Hunt has the details on Special Report Three young men spewed hateful threats to worshipers and damaged a car at a Brooklyn synagogue Saturday, "traumatizing" witnesses amid violence in the Middle East and New York. The alleged agitators drove down 16th Ave in Borough Park yelling "f–k the Jews," "kill the Jews" and "free Palestine," as worshipers gathered to pray at the Agudath Israel of Sixteenth Avenue Orthodox around 8 p.m., witnesses said. One witnes...

Eric Adams is now nearing the homestretch of the race to succeed Mayor Bill de Blasio, but  faces over two dozen men and women who seek the same job     Eric Adams, now a front-runner in the New York mayor’s race, has called himself “the poster child of endurance.” He is not nearly as flamboyant as his predecessor as Brooklyn borough president, Marty Markowitz, who installed “Fuhgeddaboudit” signs on highways and stood on the iconic Brooklyn Bridge during the 2003 blackout yelling ...

Assemblyman Simcha Eichenstein and Councilman Kalman Yeger, both Democrats, embraced Yang as a friend of Orthodox Jewish people on Wednesday.

Eric Adams, one of the leading candidates running to be mayor of New York City toured a Brooklyn yeshiva on Monday that had been on a list of schools subject to investigation over adequate secular education standards and came away with a positive impression. ”I was really impressed by what I saw,” Adams told the Forward on Monday night. “Watching those children understand grammar, understand English, saying they like writing and reading, it was amazing.” Adams, the Brooklyn borough ...