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NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio promised Sunday that police would...

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 ...

Regional By Reuvain Borchardt NEW YORK - Wednesday, May 12, 2021 at 6:02 pm | א סיון תשפ"א Andrew Yang (R) receiving the endorsement of Satet Sen. Jeremy Cooney of Upstate New York, at an event in Astoria on Tuesday. (Yang campaign) Six thousand miles from the rockets and the riots, the violence flaring in Israel and Gaza is roiling the New York City mayoral race. Candidates for Hizzoner of The Big Apple tweeted solidarity with Israel this week, drawing praise from Israel supp...

Evan Bernstein, CEO and national director of Community Security Service, an organization that trains volunteer security squads for synagogues, said Burnette’s release is a source of pain for Riverdale’s Jews. “There’s some very unhappy people in Riverdale right now,” Bernstein said. In the days after Burnette’s release, several national organizations objected to the judge’s decision and called for the bail reform bill to be amended to allow judges to set bail for perpetrators of h...

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

Andrew Yang, the frontrunner in the race for NYC mayor, bolstered his support in the Orthodox community in Brooklyn on Wednesday with the backing of two elected officials who carry considerable clout. Kalman Yeger and Simcha Eichenstein, a City Council member and a state Assembly member respectively, representing the neighborhoods of Borough Park and Midwood, said Yang stood out as a fresh face and a leader who will treat their community with respect. “What Andrew Yang gives more than any oth...

When a suspect in a series of synagogue attacks in the Riverdale section of the Bronx was released by a judge without bail, it was a tough pill for some in the Jewish community to swallow.

Release of suspect in Bronx synagogue attacks reignites debate over bail reform May 5, 2021 3:05 pm Jordan Burnette, the suspect in a series of synagogue attacks in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, is being charged with burglary as a hate crime. (Screenshot from WCBS-2) Advertisement (JTA) — When a suspect in a series of synagogue attacks in the Riverdale section of the Bronx was released by a judge without bail Sunday evening, it was a tough pill for some in the...

Turbulence Ahead: Are the skies less friendly to Observant Jews? Illustrations by Esti Friedman The thin piece of colored cloth that accompanies virtually every COVID regulation on the ground has created some atmospheric pressure in the formerly friendly skies as well. Flight attendant crews, once limited to reminding passengers to fasten seatbelts and pouring out frothy cups of warm Diet Coke, have now been handed their roughest job yet — ensuring that every passenger, every second of the ti...

ALBANY — The Assembly Judiciary Committee will begin an impeachment investigation against Gov. Andrew Cuomo after city police contacted executive officials over a new accusation that the governor sexually assaulted an unnamed aide. A current female aide alleges Cuomo aggressively groped her in the Governor’s Mansion last year after she was summoned to the residence to help fix a technical error with the governor’s cell phone, according to a Wednesday report in the Albany Times Un...