Queens

How a small challah-baking business is building Jewish community in Astoria, Queens

With his cottage challah bakery Bread of Idleness, Cody Butler is bringing top-notch Jewish breads and a bit of yiddishkeit to a diverse Western Queens community.

By Rachel Ringler July 26, 2023 1:44 pm

These Jews are defending Drag Story Hour against far-right protesters. Here’s why.

Some 300 people defended a drag event in Jackson Heights event last week against members of the Proud Boys.

January 6, 2023 10:35 am

A Holocaust survivor spends her 110th birthday knitting — the craft that was key to her survival

Rose Girone ran a knitting shop in Forest Hills for many years, and credits the craft with helping to save her family.

January 26, 2022 4:56 pm

NY hate crimes unit investigating damaged menorah in Queens

By Ben Sales December 1, 2021 1:07 pm

Forest Hills Jewish Center, a fixture in Queens, will sell its building and relocate

By Stewart Ain November 1, 2021 8:08 pm

Anti-Semitic flyers found in New York neighborhood

By Marcy Oster August 18, 2019 1:03 pm

12-year-old arrested for drawing dozens of swastikas on New York City school playground

By Marcy Oster February 28, 2019 6:57 am

Attack on NY Jewish teen not classified as hate crime

By Marcy Oster December 9, 2018 2:20 pm

Boy, 14, attacked outside yeshiva in New York

May 9, 2018 8:05 am

Massive NY blaze destroys Jewish businesses

January 1, 2017 9:18 am

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