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The Knicks won on 6/13. Jewish fans think that's more than a coincidence.
4+ hour, 9+ min ago (767+ words) (JTA) " For some Jewish fans of the New York Knicks, the most salient number related to the team's NBA championship win on Saturday was not 94, the team's final score, or 53, the number of years since the last title. It was…...
Memes, mashiach and "Torah-cyclopedias" put a Jewish twist on the Knicks" title hunt
6+ day, 15+ hour ago (848+ words) Knicks" fever has seized Jewish New Yorkers. Image by Forward staff By Louis Keene June 8, 2026 But this week, a different kind of redemption feels imminent in New York " and there"s a new face on the "Messiah" posters. With the…...
Bamba blankets NYC after Park Slope Food Coop vote to boycott Israeli products. What's next?
1+ week, 3+ day ago (1051+ words) (JTA) " Jewish institutions are responding to a boycott of Israeli products at a Brooklyn grocery store by buying up Bamba. Four thousand free bags of the Israeli peanut butter-flavored snack made their way Sunday along the Celebrate Israel Day Parade…...
Jewish group files cease and desist order against Park Slope Food Coop
2+ week, 3+ day ago (438+ words) Members shop at the Park Slope Food Coop in Brooklyn. Formed in 1973, the Coop is one of the oldest and largest food cooperatives in America. (James Leynse/Corbis via Getty Images) (New York Jewish Week) " A group of pro-Israel activists…...
Jewish New Yorkers rally outside Park East Synagogue, 2 weeks after anti-Israel protest there
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (994+ words) (JTA) " Hundreds of New York City Jews and their allies braved the cold Thursday evening for a rally outside Park East Synagogue, where pro-Palestinian protesters had demonstrated two weeks prior shouting chants like "Globalize the Intifada" and "Death to the…...
Danny Wolf will see you now
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (336+ words) By Louis Keene December 2, 2025 When the Brooklyn Nets drafted Danny Wolf this summer out of the University of Michigan, scouts said they were getting a versatile big man who could get buckets, create for his teammates and rebound. But the…...
The Park Slope Food Coop is fighting over another BDS resolution " and this time it may finally pass
3+ week, 4+ day ago (1474+ words) By Mira Fox May 20, 2026 Pink chalk outlines an approximately 20-foot-long rectangle on the sidewalk outside the Park Slope Food Coop, demarcating a sort of free speech zone to separate two camps of activists from the business of the organic grocery…...
Attack on Jewish man outside Los Angeles synagogue investigated as hate crime
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (490+ words) (JTA) " A Jewish man was assaulted on Monday evening behind a Los Angeles synagogue in what police say is being investigated as a hate crime. The assault, which took place behind Adas Torah, an Orthodox synagogue, in the heavily Jewish…...
Assault outside synagogue and rock thrown through Judaica shop window ratchet up Toronto Jews’ concerns – The Forward
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (240+ words) The police hate crime unit is investigating after a man was denied entry and then punched someone else on his way to attend Shabbat service....
Long Island father and teen son arrested after investigation into swastika drawn in school bathroom
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (493+ words) Francisco Sanles, 48, was arrested by Nassau Sounty Police in Syosset, New York on April 22, 2026. (Nassau County Police Department) (JTA) " A father and his teenage son were arrested Wednesday after an investigation into swastika graffiti at the teen's school led police…...