Today’s Unity rally was created to show Jewish solidarity, to bring Americans together for a common cause – the fight against anti-Semitism. The need for the event is obvious: visibly Jewish people in the New York metropolitan area are attacked for their religious identity on a near daily basis, sometimes resulting in death, רח”ל. Americans must unite to help destroy the bane of our society. Americans should march together to show our commitment to Religious Freedom. Our community has a diverse spectrum of political beliefs. The progressive Jew is no less Jewish than the conservative one and vice versa. Political views do not define us. Although we have different opinions about some very important issues, we all agree that attacking orthodox Jews for their religious identity is wrong.

Trying to score political points? Two days after every anti-Semitic incident – after the NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force is 48 hours into their investigation, NY Governor Cuomo makes announcements like this. No community activist has ever seen the NY State Police Hate Crimes Task Force. “I am completely disgusted by yet another incident of bias that occurred in Brooklyn on Saturday night, when a man on a bicycle yelled anti-Semitic slurs at a member of our Jewish community. “As upwards of 25,000 New Yorkers showed during yesterday’s solidarity march, these cowards who spew hate and division do not represent the majority of New Yorkers.

While elected officials continue to point fingers at President Trump for the more than 150 hate crimes in NYC, YWN has consistently pointed out that unless young black teens have joined the #MAGA train, there is nothing further from the truth. To prove this point, journalist Ami Horowitz went out to the streets of Brooklyn to find out what’s motivating the recent anti-Semitic attacks in New York. The results in the following video are simply shocking. New Ami on the Loose video! What's motivating the recent anti-Semitic attacks in New York? We found out. Watch and share. @benshapiro @dbongino @HikindDov pic.twitter.com/jlqzL7Z2LD — Ami Horowitz (@AmiHorowitz) January 5, 2020 (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

Throngs of demonstrators joined by elected officials walked solemnly across the Brooklyn Bridge in a solidarity march Sunday against anti-Semitism and all acts of hate. The “No Hate, No Fear” march was organized by New York’s Jewish community in the wake of recent anti-Semitic attacks, including a knife attack at a Hanukkah celebration north of New York City that left five people wounded and a fatal shootout at a kosher grocery in Jersey City, New Jersey. The crowds of participants jammed the streets in lower Manhattan as they waited their turns to get across the bridge. “It is wonderful that we are doing this and sad that we still have to do it,” said Claudia Stoller, 31, of Manhattan.

In the year ahead, New Yorkers will elect state legislators and congressional representatives in contests that will set the stage for the redrawing of political maps, the 2022 gubernatorial race and the future of the state Republican Party. Democrats are expected to hold the Assembly, but Republicans hope to win back Trump-friendly congressional districts. The GOP is also hoping to avoid further losses in the Senate, a chamber they lost control of in 2018 after more than a half century of domination.

There were additional anti-Semitic incidents in Crown Heights and Flatbush over Shabbos and Sunday morning. Three in Crown Heights and one in Flatbush. The following are what took place: INCIDENT 1: On Shabbos afternoon at around 2:00PM in Crown Heights, a black man walked down New York Ave near Carroll Street and began screaming “Hitler did not kill enough of you in the gas chambers”. INCIDENT 2: CrownHeights.info reports that the same black male suspect got into a verbal altercation with a Jewish man on President Street after demanding the Jewish man move aside for him. As the altercation heated up and the Jew refused to back down, the man allegedly pulled out a knife and threatened the victim.

Dear Hudson County residents and business owners, With gratitude to Hashem, we are excited to announce the expansion of our life-saving organization. A momentous occasion that is transpiring as we celebrate our 18th anniversary. Union City Hatzolah was thrust into existence eighteen years ago on that infamous day, September 11th, 2001, and has since outgrown its original borders. Initially formed as an organization to provide immediate and effective response to medical emergencies for the neighborhood of Union City, it has quickly become the number to call for the entire county. Residents, businesses, and commuters all over Hudson County know that during an emergency, they can rely on Union City Hatzolah.

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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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