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Lerner’s blanket labeling offended observers inside and outside the Jewish community. Freshman Congressional Rep. Richie Torres (D), who represents The Bronx borough on Capitol Hill, said on Twitter that “Calling Orthodox Jews an ‘extremist bloc’ is appalling and antisemitic. It should be possible to disagree on policy without demonizing a whole class of people.” “We cannot accept labeling the Orthodox Community as ‘extremist,'” NY State Sen. Brian Benjamin, who represents Harlem, declared on Twitter. “Those running good government groups should know better than anyone not t...

"It's like a horse race where one horse comes from last to near the top. Nobody expected we’d even look at this guy; all of a sudden it's 'Whew!'

323 shares Emergency responders work at a kosher supermarket, the site of a shooting in Jersey City, New Jersey, December 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) NEW YORK (JTA) — When 25,000 Jews marched across the Brooklyn Bridge on January 5, 2020, Evan Bernstein felt something he hadn’t experienced in weeks: optimism. Not even a month earlier, he had prayed with the small Orthodox community in Jersey City, New Jersey, next to the spot where shooters had just killed three people at a kosher supermarket after gunning down a police officer. Eighteen days later, when a man with a machete ent...