The latest news from the New York Jewish Week.
(JTA) — A Jewish victim of the Santa Barbara boat disaster was scheduled to be buried on Monday in New Jersey. Yulia Krashennaya, 40, of Berkeley, California, was one of 34 people killed when the scuba dive boat Conception caught fire and sank early on Sept. 2 during a Labor Day weekend outing. Krashennaya’s partner, […]
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli man and his son were stabbed and injured by a Palestinian teen during a visit to a Palestinian dentist in his West Bank office. A 15-year-old Palestinian boy asked Yosef Peretz, 60, and his 17-year-old son if they were Jewish on Saturday morning outside of the dentists’ office in the […]
(JTA) — Employees of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette donated to the Tree of Life synagogue the $15,000 they won for their Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of the deadly anti-Semitic shooting there. The newspaper won the prize in April for its “immersive, compassionate coverage” of the attack, the judges said, the paper wrote Wednesday. A gunman […]