This year brought sweeping change in national politics, in the U.S.-Israel relationship and in New York, the city with the largest Jewish population. At the Forward, we closely tracked the transition ...

A Hong Kong court will deliver its verdict in the national security case of former pro-democracy newspaper founder Jimmy Lai ...

With President Donald Trump labeling the media “the enemy” and threatening broadcast licenses and political enemies, First Amendment scholars are asking:  Is the First Amendment under more ...

Interviewed as he prepares to leave office, Mayor Eric Adams said that he hadn’t gotten the credit he deserved and that ...

The rabbis said they could not comment on the contents of the meeting, which comes weeks before Mamdani takes office as mayor ...

Protesters reportedly clashed with police near a New York City Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility, leading to ...

An Australian journalist moved with her family to New York City just before Trump retook power. She reflects on a year with a ...

Brooklyn bike parking start-up Oonee is calling foul play on the city's selection of another company for its secure bike ...

Ryan Crosswell, a former federal prosecutor, is running for Congress after resigning when the Trump administration dropped ...

Nurses at Mount Sinai Hospital in East Harlem say they’re working in fear, and they’re demanding the hospital take immediate ...

The Friday after Zohran Mamdani won, Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch gave a sermon saying that he believed the incoming New York mayor’s criticisms of Israel aligned with Hamas and that critics of Israel wanted ...

Some cities, such as New Haven, Connecticut, and San Francisco, have ordinances specifically related to tenant unions. New ...