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Judah Gribetz, lawyer and counsel behind landmark Holocaust restitution plan, dies at 97 - report

Gribetz was best known for creating a plan that distributed $1.288 billion in restitution to victims of the Holocaust.

|ByARIELLA ROITMAN
Judah Gribetz, center, huddled with Gov. Hugh L. Carey, left, and Mayor Abraham D. Beame, right, during a meeting of New York’s Emergency Financial Control Board in 1977.
New York Police Department officers in the Bronx borough of New York City, US, May 16, 2023.

Man known to police, security enters Brooklyn Chabad with knife, bat is removed by bystander

The man, who is apparently not Jewish, entered the building wearing a kippah and holding a knife and a bat, was promptly confronted by worshippers and bystanders, and was removed from the building.

|ByYOAV ETIEL, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
The exterior of the Park Slope Food Coop in Brooklyn.

Israeli Brand ecoLove among casualties of Brooklyn boycott: 'They boycotted our shampoo'

Sharona Romano Lazar, the company’s owner, says she is struggling to make sense of the situation.

|ByALAN ROSENBAUM
The exterior of the Park Slope Food Coop in Brooklyn.

Bamba blankets NYC after Park Slope Food Coop vote to boycott Israeli products. What’s next?

Four thousand free bags of the Israeli peanut butter-flavored snack made their way Sunday along the Celebrate Israel Day Parade route up Fifth Avenue, passed around by volunteers.

|ByJACKIE HAJDENBERG/JTA

ADL offering $50,000 reward for tips on 1994 NYC murder

Ari Halberstam, 16, was murdered on the Brooklyn Bridge in 1994 by Rashid Baz, who also fired upon 14 other Jewish teens in a van.

JULY 11, 2023ByHALEY COHEN
Participants in a Jewish solidarity march across New York City's Brooklyn Bridge, Jan. 5, 2020. The march in the city was held in response to a recent rise in anti-Semitic crimes in the New York metropolitan area. (Jeenah Moon/Getty Images)

Jewish journalist sues bar for refusing to serve him

Conservative journalist Elad Eliahu, 29, was reportedly on a first date last month in Brooklyn when a bartender allegedly told him to leave while calling him a "Zionist fascist."

MAY 1, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Two pints of beer

Six NYC Council members reject establishment of 'End Jew Hatred Day'

Among those on the 51-member council who did not support the measure was Shahana Hanif, a representative of the heavily Jewish Brooklyn neighborhoods of Borough Park and Park Slope. 

APRIL 28, 2023ByHALEY COHEN
End Jew Hatred Protest in NYC, held in front of the public library. (End Jew Hatred)

A new dance club in Williamsburg is bringing Tel Aviv party culture to Brooklyn

Some of the biggest night club venues in Brooklyn can hold thousands of people. Silo, by contrast, holds only 500, which carries a more intimate feel.

MARCH 14, 2023ByJACOB HENRY/JTA
Nightclub (Illustrative)

Ellen Lapidus Stern: The aliyah story of the well-known Israeli artist

Lapidus Stern is well known in Israel and internationally for her colorful and imaginative oil paintings. Many of them are on permanent exhibition, others in private collections.

MARCH 4, 2023BySUSAN DE LA FUENTE
WITH ‘HADAR,’ a five-meter-high oil on canvas, now on display at the Jerusalem Municipality.

Man hit by truck driver in Brooklyn rampage dies of head injury

62-year-old Weng Sor of Las Vegas has been accused of deliberately plowing into pedestrians and bike riders in multiple locations in Monday's rampage through two Brooklyn neighborhoods.

FEBRUARY 15, 2023ByREUTERS
A New York Police Department vehicle blocks a U-Haul rental vehicle, where according to media reports, a man struck multiple people and the NYPD took the driver into custody, near the Battery tunnel in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, US, February 13, 2023.

Kyrie Irving traded to Dallas Mavericks after antisemitism controversy

The Dallas Mavericks' Jewish owner Mark Cuban spoke out on Irving's antisemitism scandal last year.

FEBRUARY 6, 2023ByGABE FRIEDMAN/JTA
Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving (11) at Barclays Center, Brooklyn, New York, Oct 29, 2022

Rabbi went down with torpedoed warship in 1943. His cousin ensures story isn't forgotten

The sinking of the Dorchester is considered one of the country’s worst World War II-era sea disasters: Of the 902 men on board, only 203 survived.

FEBRUARY 4, 2023ByLISA KEYS/JTA
S.S. Dorchester and Four Chaplains stamp

Jewish spirit haunts Hasidic Brooklyn in ‘The Offering,’ Yiddish-inflected horror movie

There's has been a boom in the Jewish-themed horror realm in recent years.

JANUARY 14, 2023BySTEPHEN SILVER/JTA
Set in a Hasidic enclave in Brooklyn, "The Offering" is the newest film in the long history of Jewish horror films.

Detroit Pistons troll Kyrie Irving with 'Happy Hanukkah' graphic

The scoreboard displayed both a spinning globe and a Hanukkah graphic with a menorah while he was at the free throw line.

DECEMBER 21, 2022ByJACOB GURVIS/JTA
Oct 29, 2022; Brooklyn, New York, USA; Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving (11) argues a call in the third quarter against the Indiana Pacers at Barclays Center.