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Joel Eisdorfer is the third Orthodox Jew on the mayor’s senior staff.

$250,000 fund set to beef up security at some 50 small 'shtiebels' — congregations with fewer than 200 people and little or no staff

The funding can include the installation of new doors, locks and video cameras, and active shooter and access control training.

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

Many Brooklyn and Queens leaders and residents cheer Gov. Kathy Hochul’s proposal to bring mass transit service to an existing freight line linking the boroughs. So far, pols who’ve pushed back on train plans have remained mum.

This innovative criminal justice initiative seeks to address the dual problem of a national rise in anti-Semitic attacks and failures in the criminal justice system to hold perpetrators accountable.

How Boro Park chassid Pinny Ringel won the respect of de Blasio and the trust of his people

Since the early 1990s, there have been efforts on the part of a number of communities to prevent Orthodox Jews from establishing homes and shuls in their

New York religious schools face a vaccine mandate. Will they fight it?

Mayor Bill de Blasio set a vaccine mandate for religious and private schools. Jewish and Catholic leaders are frustrated, and some have predicted legal challenges.