Many of the teens were reportedly not wearing masks or adhering to social distancing; building in Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood closed and participants dispersed

Author and amateur shutterbug Neil Kramer turns his lens inward, focusing on a short-term living arrangement that only a global pandemic could have prolonged

Advocacy group attacks Bill de Blasio after emails detail his knowledge of report on religious institutions failing to meet education standards

Czech Jewish foundation sends shipment of masks, face shields, donated by kosher-certified companies, plans to send 3,000 respirators for first responders

Parker Jewish Institute in Queens has most deaths on list as state tallies people believed killed by coronavirus before diagnoses confirmed

Bill de Blasio made friends among ultra-Orthodox leaders with position on controversial circumcision practice, but has been criticized for slow response to anti-Semitic violence

Letters from two rival Satmar factions both highlight close ties between community and de Blasio, condemn outsiders who accused mayor of anti-Semitism in row over funeral

Group that provides traditional Jewish burial for those who can't afford expenses performs 134 funerals in last month; call for prayer shawls answered from as far away as Florida

New York Jews who inform secular authorities of services held despite virus restrictions face harassment, threats, as community shuns outside intervention on sensitive issues

Mitchell Silk, an expert on China from New York, appointed by Senate as assistant secretary of the Treasury for International Markets