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.

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.

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.

New York

NY hate crimes unit investigating damaged menorah in Queens

New York

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

United States

Anti-Semitic flyers found in New York neighborhood

United States

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

United States

Attack on NY Jewish teen not classified as hate crime

United States

Boy, 14, attacked outside yeshiva in New York

United States

Massive NY blaze destroys Jewish businesses

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