Six Israeli-linked companies earned recognition alongside global technology companies whose Israeli operations signal confidence in the country’s talent.
“We’re not just building a warehouse,” David Greenfield, CEO of the Met Council, told JNS. “We’re building the infrastructure to fight poverty on a much larger scale.”
Talk of “shared responsibility” with the Jewish state distracts from the real threat to U.S. Jews from leftists who are motivated by Jew-hatred, not Netanyahu and his allies.
“You’ve got to win Pennsylvania to win the presidency. Presumably, if you can win Pennsylvania, you can win Wisconsin and Michigan as well,” Berwood Yost, director of the Franklin & Marshall College poll, told JNS.
The White House said that the first lady and her representative “worked directly with Russian and Ukrainian leadership to define the terms of the localized ceasefire.”
Michael Trager told JNS that he feels ignored by city leaders after his wife, 71, was killed as they crossed a street together on their way home from a date night dinner.
The Nassau County Police Department told JNS that Bruce Blakeman released a statement about a fire at the Young Israel of West Hempstead, but instead of providing that, a Blakeman rep asked JNS to name the police spokesman.
“Most teachers would not want to touch this with a 10-foot pole, certainly not at the middle school level,” Alisa Berger of the Harvard University Graduate School of Education told JNS.
“I had a slow awakening which made me realize that this is my heritage and that we had been disconnected from it because of Adolf Hitler,” said Barbara Hines after discovering her Jewish roots.
Six Israeli-linked companies earned recognition alongside global technology companies whose Israeli operations signal confidence in the country’s talent.
“We’re not just building a warehouse,” David Greenfield, CEO of the Met Council, told JNS. “We’re building the infrastructure to fight poverty on a much larger scale.”
Talk of “shared responsibility” with the Jewish state distracts from the real threat to U.S. Jews from leftists who are motivated by Jew-hatred, not Netanyahu and his allies.
“You’ve got to win Pennsylvania to win the presidency. Presumably, if you can win Pennsylvania, you can win Wisconsin and Michigan as well,” Berwood Yost, director of the Franklin & Marshall College poll, told JNS.
The White House said that the first lady and her representative “worked directly with Russian and Ukrainian leadership to define the terms of the localized ceasefire.”
Michael Trager told JNS that he feels ignored by city leaders after his wife, 71, was killed as they crossed a street together on their way home from a date night dinner.
The Nassau County Police Department told JNS that Bruce Blakeman released a statement about a fire at the Young Israel of West Hempstead, but instead of providing that, a Blakeman rep asked JNS to name the police spokesman.
“Most teachers would not want to touch this with a 10-foot pole, certainly not at the middle school level,” Alisa Berger of the Harvard University Graduate School of Education told JNS.
“I had a slow awakening which made me realize that this is my heritage and that we had been disconnected from it because of Adolf Hitler,” said Barbara Hines after discovering her Jewish roots.
Hate crimes, Jew-hatred down in New York City in April, NYPD says
New York City Police Department data suggested 39 hate crimes in the city from April 1 to 26. In April 2025, there were 76 hate crimes recorded.
A New York City Police Department officer, Nov. 17, 2023. Credit: Caroline Rubinstein-Willis/Mayoral Photography Office.
(May 3, 2026 / JNS)
Hate crimes overall, and antisemitism in particular, was down in April compared to prior years, even though Jew-hatred rose in the earlier part of the year, Jessica Tisch, commissioner of the New York City Police Department, told attendees of the Crown Heights Jewish Community Council annual legislative brunch at Congregation Anshei Lubavitch in Brooklyn on Sunday.
“Since Oct. 7, 2023, the NYPD has dealt with thousands of protests, many of them aimed at our Jewish community,” Tisch said. “You have been the target of some of the most vile and detestable rhetoric that I have heard. Under the First Amendment, we cannot and we don’t police speech, no matter how offensive, but we will never tolerate threats, harassment or violence.”
Jews make up some 10% of city residents, face more than half of all hate crimes, according to Tisch.
“We understand what that means for families, for houses of worship and for communities like this one,” she said. “That’s why the NYPD is relentless in investigating every complaint and confronting hate in any form, led by our hate crimes task force, the premier unit of its kind in the nation.”
“After a rise to start 2026, we are now down this year, so far, in both antisemitic and overall hate crimes year-to-date,” she said. “These crimes tear the fabric of society through both the acts themselves and the underlying hatred that seeks to divide us.”
According to NYPD CompStat data from April 1 to 26, the city recorded 39 hate crimes, and 183 hate crimes in the city since Jan. 1—down 7.1% from the 197 in the same span in 2025. It wasn’t clear if the 2026 data included reported but not confirmed hate crimes, as the NYPD has twice changed the way it reports hate crimes this year, after the city recorded a 182% increase in Jew-hatred in the first month of Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral term.]
NYPD reported 76 hate crimes in the city in April 2025, up 31% over the prior year (58). Of the 76 hate crimes, 41 (54%) targeted Jews, a 41% increase over the prior year, when there were 29 anti-Jewish hate crimes.
The NYPD hate crimes dashboard hasn’t yet updated with data from April.
Tisch told attendees that the impact of Oct. 7 has been “magnified by rising tensions amid the war in Iran. The threat of international and domestic terrorism, including threats aimed at Jewish communities around the world, has put us all in a state of ongoing, heightened alert.”
“In fact, I have not seen a threat environment quite like this one in my 18-plus years in government, which started in counter terrorism work,” she said. “Rhetoric has shifted from outrage to incitement. Slogans are becoming direct calls for violence, and when people are already on the edge, they only need a spark.”
“It is our job to snuff out these sparks before they catch,” she added.
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New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin and council members attend a Crown Heights Jewish Community Council legislative brunch at Congregation Anshei Lubavitch in Brooklyn, May 3, 2026. Credit: Alex Krales/NYC Council.
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New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin and council members attend a Crown Heights Jewish Community Council legislative brunch at Congregation Anshei Lubavitch in Brooklyn, May 3, 2026. Credit: Alex Krales/NYC Council.
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Letitia James, attorney general of New York, at a Crown Heights Jewish Community Council legislative brunch at Congregation Anshei Lubavitch in Brooklyn, May 3, 2026. Credit: Alex Krales/NYC Council.
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Mark Levine, New York City comptroller, at a Crown Heights Jewish Community Council legislative brunch at Congregation Anshei Lubavitch in Brooklyn, May 3, 2026. Credit: Alex Krales/NYC Council.
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New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin (second from left) and council members attend a Crown Heights Jewish Community Council legislative brunch at Congregation Anshei Lubavitch in Brooklyn, May 3, 2026. Credit: Alex Krales/NYC Council.
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(From left) New York state comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, New York City Council speaker Julie Menin and city comptroller Mark Levine at a Crown Heights Jewish Community Council legislative brunch at Congregation Anshei Lubavitch in Brooklyn, May 3, 2026. Credit: Alex Krales/NYC Council.
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A man wears a kippah referring to the “king messiah” at a Crown Heights Jewish Community Council legislative brunch at Congregation Anshei Lubavitch in Brooklyn, May 3, 2026. Credit: Alex Krales/NYC Council.
“We’re not just building a warehouse,” David Greenfield, CEO of the Met Council, told JNS. “We’re building the infrastructure to fight poverty on a much larger scale.”
