After video footage was released of football (soccer) fans harassing an Orthodox Jewish man with antisemitic chants aboard a flight to Belgium, the fans were arrested on account of committing a hate crime. Essex police had launched an investigation which revealed supporters of the West Ham Football Club on their way to Belgium to watch […]
During the Gaza attack on Israel this summer, as Jews around the world were being physically assaulted, I was concerned that my pre-teen son wasn’t paying much attention to the news or aware of what his people were enduring. I saw a powerful clip on Instagram of Hitler addressing Nazis over 70 years ago which […]
A new coding program geared towards Orthodox Jewish women in the New York area is already attracting the community to jobs in software development and technology. A partnership with Code Kevudah and Met Council teaches skills to become tech experts and help to support their families. The technology training is given over in a culturally-sensitive […]
Two Brooklyn Orthodox Jews were attacked unprovoked this week in horrific incidents which the NYPD are investigating as hate crimes. In the first assault, a 23-year-old man was shot in the head with a BB pellet in a caught-on-camera drive-by shooting. He was seen on camera clutching his face and stumbling to the sidewalk. He […]
“Upper West Side Story” would be the perfect name for a show about a modern Orthodox girl with a passion for theater, and the star of the show would be Amy Guterson. This off-broadway actress who studied theater with some of the greats, like Uta Hagen, went on to found a Chasidic seminary for the […]
