The Israeli security cabinet will convene tomorrow to discuss the expected backlash from Iran following the assassination of Qasem Soleimanin by the U.S. Air Force last week. Iran has declared that they will retaliate and harm many Americans and that the retaliation will come from Gaza, Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq. In response, the U.S. has begun to deploy extra forces to the Middle East and has issued a statement that if any Americans are harmed that the response against Iran will be strong and dire. An additional five commanders of pro-Iran militias in Iraq were killed by an airstrike just north of Baghdad on Saturday. The U.S. led international coalition forces declared that they had nothing to do with the targeted attack.

At least two more anti-Semitic incidents are being investigated. In the first incident, the NYPD says they are looking for a man accused of spitting on a Jewish woman in Queens after trying to enter a yeshiva. Police say the man was denied entry to the Talmud Torah Siach Yitzchok school in Far Rockaway on the morning of Dec. 24. When school staff denied him entry, he walked over to a car, spewed anti-Semitic slurs at a mother sitting inside the vehicle and then spat on her through an open window, according to police. The 44-year-old mom was not physically injured. The NYPD released surveillance video of the 20-something-year-old black suspect on Saturday. Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS.

President Donald Trump on Saturday issued a blistering statement warning Iran of a large United States response if the Islamic Republic attacks U.S. interests following the killing of Qasem Soleimani. “Iran is talking very boldly about targeting certain USA assets as revenge for our ridding the world of their terrorist leader who had just killed an American, & badly wounded many others, not to mention all of the people he had killed over his lifetime, including recently hundreds of Iranian protesters. He was already attacking our Embassy, and preparing for additional hits in other locations. Iran has been nothing but problems for many years.

For years, ultra-Orthodox Jewish families priced out of increasingly expensive Brooklyn neighborhoods have been turning to the suburbs, where they have taken advantage of open space and cheaper housing to establish modern-day versions of the European shtetls where their ancestors lived for centuries before the Holocaust. The expansion of Hasidic communities in New York’s Hudson […]
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Israel’s Attorney General’s office declared the disgraceful comments of Deputy Mayor of Haifa, Lazer Kaplan to not be considered incitement against the Charedi community. Even the leadership of Yisrael Beiteinu, the party who Lazar is a part of in the city council, decried the comments that were made on Kaplan’s profile on a Russian language […]
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Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, the former chief rabbi of England, once described anti-Semitism as a virus and sickness of the soul, which has no logic. “Jews were hated because they were rich and because they were poor; because they were capitalists and because they were communists; because they held tenaciously to an ancient faith and […]
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Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said Thursday that President Donald Trump has “tossed a stick of dynamite into a tinderbox” with the targeted killing of Iran’s top general in an airstrike at Baghdad’s international airport. The former vice president joined other Democratic White House hopefuls in criticizing Trump’s order, saying it could leave the U.S. […]
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Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has warned that a “harsh retaliation is waiting” for the U.S. after the airstrike on Baghdad airport that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force. The Iranian state TV carried a statement by Khamenei also calling Soleimani “the international face of resistance.” Khamenei declared […]
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Iraqi TV and three Iraqi officials said Friday that Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the powerful head of Iran’s elite Quds Force, has been killed in an airstrike at Baghdad’s international airport. The officials said the strike also killed Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy commander of Iran-backed militias known as the Popular Mobilization Forces. Their deaths are […]
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There was another anti-Semitic incident in Boro Park on Thursday, and this one took place just THREE BLOCKS from where Mayor Deblasio was in middle of holding a meeting with Jewish community leaders to discuss the recent hate crimes. The attached video of the incident was provided to YWN by Boro Park Shomrim from inside […]
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