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Bondi survivor gives thanks at the Rebbe’s grave

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 04:43:16 +0000

Yanky Super, a 24-year-old paramedic and volunteer on duty with Sydney’s Hatzalah emergency medical services, didn’t even hear a shot fired at Chabad of Bondi’s ‘Chanukah at the Sea’ event before he felt a bullet hit him in the back, collapsing his lung. One of the scores wounded during the Dec. 14 terror attack at […]

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Bondi hero Ahmed al-Ahmed and Sydney rabbi visit Rebbe’s resting place

Yoni Brown — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 05:50:40 +0000

Fresh off the 22-hour flight from Sydney to New York, Ahmed al-Ahmed and Rabbi Yehoram Ulman paused on Tuesday morning to pray together at the Ohel, the resting place of the Rebbe—Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory—in Queens. Al-Ahmed came to prominence following the Dec. 14, 2025, terror attack on Chabad-Lubavitch of Bondi’s Chanukah […]

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Titanic passenger’s watch sets record at UK auction

AAP — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 06:49:09 +0000

A world record price has been set for Titanic memorabilia, with the sale of a gold pocket watch at a UK auction featuring mementos from the ill-fated ship. A gold pocket watch recovered from an elderly couple who drowned during the sinking of the Titanic has sold for a record-breaking Stg1.78 million ($A3.61 million) at […]

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The coming four-year nightmare in the Big Apple

Bruce S. Ticker — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 01:31:05 +0000

The four-year New York City nightmare commences on Jan. 1. But whose nightmare? The reign of Zohran Mamdani as Gotham’s next mayor threatens to be a nightmare for 960,000 Jewish New Yorkers, but it could be worse for the city’s first Muslim mayor. Mamdani, a Democrat who will be sworn in on Jan. 1, will […]

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Work is just beginning for New York City Jews

Sarah Lehman — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 06:29:07 +0000

Months’ worth of handwringing ended on Election Day, only to usher in a more vigorous form of it. The fear of a Socialist, Muslim mayor of New York City—one who is loudly anti-Israel—has been realised, bringing with it more fear of what this portends for the most “Jewish” city in the world outside of Israel. […]

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The Islamist capture of New York

Melanie Phillips - JNS.org — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 06:16:35 +0000

The victory of New York state assemblyman Zohran Mamdani in the New York City mayoral election was long heralded by the opinion polls. Yet its effect upon America threatens to be nothing less than seismic. It’s not just that Mamdani may wreck the city through the expected multiple failures of his infantile magic money-tree wish […]

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Diaspora Affairs Minister urges New York Jews to move to Israel

Pesach Benson — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 11:29:21 +0000

Israel’s Diaspora Affairs Minister, Amichai Chikli, expressed alarm over the election of Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York City, calling him a supporter of Hamas and warning that the city is becoming increasingly unsafe for Jews. “The city that was once a symbol of global freedom has handed over its keys to a Hamas […]

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Mamdani wins NYC mayoral race, as Jewish leaders say historic civic engagement

JNS — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 07:00:47 +0000

Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee who has a history of anti-Israel rhetoric, won the New York City mayoral race, the Associated Press reported shortly after 9:30 p.m. At press time, with 75% of the votes counted, Mamdani had 860,327 votes (50.4%), followed by 704,866 (41.3%) for former Democratic state governor Andrew Cuomo running as an […]

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The threat posed by Zohan Mamdani

Menachem Rosensaft — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 23:27:58 +0000

By publicly and forcefully denouncing Zohran Mamdani as “a danger to the security of New York’s Jewish community,” Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove of New York City’s Park Avenue Synagogue has demonstrated yet again why he is one of the most important and most influential Jewish leaders on the American scene. He is not just a man […]

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What would a Mayor Mamdani mean for American Jews?

Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 22:49:38 +0000

The most famous former resident of New York City summed up the state of the mayor’s race succinctly. In the words of President Donald Trump, it’s “not looking too good” for either man trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from being elected mayor on Nov. 4. It’s this growing realisation that—barring an unexpected development—the Democratic Socialist […]

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