United States

Orthodox Jews, kosher market hit by paintballs in Brooklyn

Police said the attacks could be linked to three similar incidents that occurred in the same area in March and may be investigated as hate crimes.

Animal rights group sues NYC over Yom Kippur ritual

The lawsuit accuses police and health departments of assisting the ritual by blocking off streets and sidewalks, and not enforcing laws that regulate health and animal cruelty issues.

L.A.’s Fabulous Jewish Refugee Soccer Team

In the 1960s, a group of Israeli expats and European concentration camp survivors formed Maccabi Los Angeles, part of the largely ethnic Greater Los Angeles Soccer League. As a recent article in Vice recounts, over the course of a decade Maccabi became one of the top U.S. soccer teams, and only one of two teams […]