More than 200 members of the Bronx Anti-War Coalition protested outside of U.S. Rep. Ritchie Torres’ Fordham office on Tuesday, accusing him of funding “Israel’s genocide.”
Longtime Riverdale resident and political activist Judith McGowan died Sept. 17, 2023, at the Hebrew Home at Riverdale, with her husband Andrew by her side. She was 83.
Simchat Torah should have been a day of joyous celebration, dancing and singing, but it was instead filled with grief, shock and mourning over the hundreds killed in Hamas’ strikes on Israel just a day prior.
The leadership of the Benjamin Franklin Reform Democratic Club, along with Democratic State Committee Member Michael Heller, issued a statement in the wake of the Hamas attacks on Israel on Saturday, Oct. 7, in which they said they stand with Israel and unequivocally condemn the terrorist attacks on Israel and her people.