NYC

Brooklyn’s Orthodox women’s EMT service gets right to operate an ambulance after years of lobbying

Ezras Nashim was established in 2014 as a counterpart to the predominantly-male run Hazoloh rescue organization.

Ideas

You can’t defend haredi Orthodox Jews against violence while demonizing our schools

Groups that smear yeshiva education thicken the cloud of hostility against Jews who wear their Jewishness openly, writes Rabbi Avi Shafran.

Ideas

I’m still trying to figure out my Jewishness. Rising anti-Semitism doesn’t help.

I’ve often felt out of place within my own religion — “not Jewish enough” for some and “too Jewish” for many others, explains a self-described “Jew-ish” writer.

Ideas

Barneys was a fashion tastemaker — but its success came with a dark cost

Ideas

Why are elite Jewish day schools standing in the way of a better education for yeshiva kids?

Ideas

Don’t believe the Orthodox newspapers: Rent control is good for the Jews

United States

Black woman says subway rant against Jewish man was not racist

United States

Jewish mother and daughter mistaken for Muslims beaten in New York

Culture

City Council candidate ‘cares about’ Jews, compares them to Germans who enabled the Nazis

United States

NYC to automatically ban mohels linked to newborn herpes cases

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