Dear Commissioner and Members of the Law Enforcement Bureau: The National Jewish Advocacy Center respectfully requests that the Commission exercise its authority under N.Y .C. Admin. Code §§ 8-105 and 8-109 to commence a Commission-initiated complaint and investigation into Poetica Coffee. Poetica has publicly announced a policy of excluding Jewish patrons from a place of public accommodation, and it has reduced that policy to writing for tens of thousands of readers. The vi

Towns across America are passing local BDS ordinances. In Massachusetts, NJAC filed the first-ever lawsuit challenging a town’s BDS resolution. This fight has begun, and will continue throughout the country. On June 18, NJAC Associate Director and Senior Counsel Ben Schlager and NJAC Litigation Counsel Rachel Sebbag hosted an educational webinar entitled, "Fighting Illegal Municipal BDS Ordinances." Contact us to learn more about NJAC"s groundbreaking strategy in challenging

Photo credit: Gordon Family SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The National Jewish Advocacy Center (NJAC), on behalf of a family in the San Dieguito Union High School District and in coordination with Partners for Equality and Educational Responsibility in K-12 (PeerK12), has filed a writ petition in Sacramento Superior Court to compel enforcement of a California Department of Education order arising from an antisemitic incident at a district school. The legal action follows a 2025 inciden

The Los Angeles soccer fan who had his Israeli flag forcibly confiscated by event staff during a recent World Cup match at Los Angeles's SoFi stadium says he is prepared to sue the FIFA soccer organization for violating his civil rights and endangering his family's safety before a crowd of rabid pro-Palestinian fans, according to a document preservation letter sent late Wednesday and obtained exclusively by the Washington Free Beacon. Rony Abishoor and his family were thrust

A Jewish civil rights group is urging the Justice Department to investigate Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his administration for alleged “discriminatory failure to protect Jewish residents from antisemitic hate” crimes. The bombshell accusations from the National Jewish Advocacy Center come two days after the Poetica Coffee shop in Brooklyn told pro-Israel Jewish Rep. Dan Goldman never to enter the eatery again, claiming it doesn’t serve “genocdial enablers.” “The National Jewish

June 23, 2026 Patrick McCarthy Acting Chief, Special Litigation Section Civil Rights Division United States Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20530 Re: Request for a Pattern-or-Practice Investigation under 34 U.S.C. § 12601 into the City of New York’s Discriminatory Failure to Protect Jewish Residents from Antisemitic Hate Crime Dear Mr. McCarthy: The National Jewish Advocacy Center writes to request that the Civil Rights Division open an investi

"Hospitality for everyone — except supporters of Israel. A crunchy coffee shop flamed pro-Israel Rep. Dan Goldman for buying a cup of java at its Brooklyn location and issued him a refund, declaring it doesn’t serve “genocide enablers.” Poetica Coffee revealed the unasked-for $9.82 refund in a bitter Facebook post Sunday, with a pic of a hapless Goldman – who faces a tough Democratic primary challenge from former city Comptroller Brad Lander – in the Park Slope shop..." “They

“Settler violence” has been the subject of a growing international campaign that seeks to equate acts of vandalism, or, really, any action by Jews in the West Bank and Jerusalem—or even their presence there—with murderous terrorism by Palestinians, in an effort to create a moral equivalence between Israel and Hamas. Democratic Congress members, led by Rep. Jerry Nadler, recently proposed legislation that would codify the Biden administration’s unprecedented sanctions on Israe

"On NYPD’s own confirmed numbers, anti-Jewish hate crimes rose 70.8% year over year in May," Goldfeder, who also directs the National Jewish Advocacy Center, told JNS. "On the broader reported numbers, if compared to the way NYPD presented the data last year, anti-Jewish hate-crime reports rose from 24 to 60, which is a 150% increase. Either way, the signal is unmistakable. Jews remain the leading target of hate crimes in New York City by a staggering margin, and the trend is

The movement that once preached "give peace a chance" now finds itself excusing terrorism, boycotting Israel, and turning against the world's only Jewish state. "The National Jewish Advocacy Center filed a complaint with the New York State Division of Human Rights. New York law prevents blacklisting products based on protected classes, such as national origin. Another action is planned pursuant to the New York law that governs corporations, of which co-ops are included. Intim

“Can legal accountability succeed where public diplomacy has failed? In this episode of Basic Law, attorney Mark Goldfeder explains how a series of innovative legal challenges are taking aim at what he describes as a growing ecosystem of anti-Israel discrimination, defamation and institutional bias. Viewers will learn how shareholder activism is being used to scrutinize the New York Times over controversial reporting, why a Brooklyn food co-op's boycott of Israeli products ma

In April 2024, two men went to work at Columbia University. They were surrounded by masked rioters, punched, barricaded inside the school’s Hamilton Hall, called “Jew-lovers,” and physically prevented from leaving. They eventually escaped, but they did not recover. They lost their janitorial jobs, and they remain on workers’ compensation. And yet a federal court just told them that none of this adds up to a civil rights violation. Judge Colleen McMahon’s decision dismissing t

A federal judge is weighing whether a lawsuit, in which a Jewish Emory University professor alleges that he was falsely accused of abetting genocide for serving in the Israeli military, can proceed. Dr. Joshua Winer, a surgical oncologist at Emory University School of Medicine, accuses defendants, including the medical student Umaymah Mohammad, Doctors Against Genocide Society and the Council on American-Islamic Relations, of defaming him and conspiring against him after he t

Photo credit: Politico NEW YORK, N.Y. — The National Jewish Advocacy Center (NJAC) has sent a formal shareholder demand letter to The New York Times Company demanding inspection of the Company’s books and records pursuant to New York Business Corporation Law Section 624 and New York common law. The demand was filed on behalf of the National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR), a beneficial shareholder of the Company, and targets the Board of Directors’ oversight of the

Northampton, MA — The National Jewish Advocacy Center (NJAC) and the Gevura Fund, together with co-counsel Libby Hoopes Brooks & Mulvey, P.C., have filed a motion for a temporary restraining order in Massachusetts Superior Court seeking to immediately halt enforcement of the City of Northampton’s anti-Israel divestment resolution before it causes irreversible harm to the public. The motion follows a lawsuit NJAC filed in March on behalf of Northampton taxpayers challenging th

A California judge has turned a routine vandalism case into a dangerous question: Can a Jewish prosecutor who speaks about antisemitism be trusted to prosecute antisemitic activists? On June 5, 2024, protesters occupied the office of Stanford University’s president. Prosecutors say they broke windows and furniture, disabled security cameras, spray-painted the building and caused more than $360,000 in damage. Nearly a year later, Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rose

Photo credit: Britannica.com VIA CERTIFIED MAIL AND EMAIL Board of Directors The New York Times Company Attn: Diane Brayton Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary 620 Eighth Avenue New York, New York 10018 nytsecretary@nytimes.com May 29, 2026 Re: Common-Law Shareholder Demand for Inspection of Books and Records Dear Ms. Brayton: We write on behalf of the National Center for Public Policy Research (the “Stockholder” or “NCPPR”), a beneficial sh

NEW YORK — The National Jewish Advocacy Center (NJAC) today sent a cease-and-desist and document-preservation letter to the Park Slope Food Coop (PSFC) on behalf of PSFC members and both an importer and a reseller of Israeli-made food products, demanding that the Brooklyn cooperative immediately rescind a boycott of Israeli products and end what NJAC describes as a hostile environment directed at Jewish and Israeli member-owners. NJAC contends that PSFC’s Board “has allowed a

From Fox News: "[A] Jewish advocacy group asked the Justice Department to probe the Twitch streamer for allegedly serving as an unregistered agent for the communist nation." "Questions have risen as to whether Piker should have to register as a foreign agent under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). The National Jewish Advocacy Center told Fox News Digital the organization called on the Justice Department to investigate Piker over FARA rules on Thursday." Read the ful

"Rabbi Mark Goldfeder and Andrew Cuomo critique the local government’s failure to adequately protect Jewish students from harassment through a proposed buffer zone bill. The speakers argue that while the legislation is constitutionally sound and viewpoint-neutral, it has been significantly weakened to exclude universities, representing a symbolic rather than substantive effort to combat anti-Semitism. Goldfeder highlights the disparate treatment of the community, noting that