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🤝 Mayoral meetup
🚨 Yeshiva College pupil assaulted
A Yeshiva College pupil was attacked by a number of folks within the subway station on 181st Avenue on Thursday evening in what the college described as an “unbiased tried theft.”
“Completed within the blind spot of the subway station the place there aren’t any police or safety cameras,” stated Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin, who teaches at Yeshiva’s Sy Syms College of Enterprise, in a publish on X. “That is past scary for a visibly Jewish group in NYC.”
The coed was taken to Columbia College Irving Medical Heart in steady situation, stated the NYPD.
🕍 Lawsuit fights historic synagogue’s demolition
Congregation Chaim Albert, an almost century-old synagogue on the Brooklyn campus of a traditionally Jewish hospital, is combating in court docket in opposition to its demolition to construct reasonably priced housing. At a court docket listening to on Wednesday, the nonprofit that owns the hospital argued it was not certain to maintain the synagogue intact, reported Gothamist.
In December, Gov. Kathy Hochul stated she was stepping in to save lots of the synagogue and inspired leaders of the hospital and the congregation to succeed in an settlement.
📃 Antisemitism payments transfer ahead
The NYC Council is advancing a bundle of seven payments aimed toward combating antisemitism, launched by Jewish Council Speaker Julie Menin, reported The Ahead.
The newly created Committee to Fight Hate will maintain a listening to later this month on Menin’s proposals, together with a 100-foot buffer zone free from protests round synagogues and boosts to safety funding, schooling and reporting of antisemitic incidents.
Mamdani has stated he’s awaiting a authorized evaluation of the buffer zone measure, and “wouldn’t signal any laws that we discover to be outdoors of the bounds of the regulation.”
A coalition of left-wing Jewish teams has objected to the invoice on free speech grounds, saying it “undermines the open society we cherish right here in New York Metropolis, which has allowed Jews to thrive for hundreds of years.”
🎙 Schlossberg, Lasher reply questions on Israel
Micah Lasher and Jack Schlossberg, who’re each operating to interchange retiring Rep. Jerry Nadler in a closely Jewish district, gave their views on Israel help and West Financial institution settlements at a candidate discussion board on Thursday.
Schlossberg stated that funding and weapons help to Israel ought to be examined rigorously, however he didn’t imagine that “we must always abolish it solely” or that “the USA ought to abandon its historic ally.” The reply elicited boos adopted by a wave of applause.
Lasher, whom Nadler has endorsed, stated he would reintroduce laws proposed by Nadler to sanction the enlargement of settlements within the West Financial institution.
