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The Lodge and Gaming Trades Council endorsed Brooklyn Borough Prez Antonio Reynoso for Congress in NY-7. File picture by Paul Frangipane/cCourtesy of Gerardo Romo, NYC Council Media Unit Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso secured one other vital endorsement within the race to succeed U.S. Rep. Nydia Velázquez in Congress. The influential Lodge and Gaming Trades Council, which represents greater than 400,000 hospitality and gaming employees in New York and northern New Jersey, threw its weight behind Reynoso within the NY-7 Democratic main. The union stated the endorsement highlighted Reynoso’s “long commitment to organized labor, working families, and immigrant communities” within…
Going through a rising variety of antisemitic incidents in New York Metropolis, new Metropolis Council Speaker Julie Menin unveiled on Friday a plan to fight antisemitism, together with schooling, safety and funding. Picture by Claude Solnik Jan. 27, 2026, marks the 81st anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Nazi dying camp the place greater than 1.1 million folks, largely Jews, had been exterminated. Auschwitz wouldn’t solely change into the final word image of the horrors of the Holocaust; it will additionally function an everlasting reminder of the true risks of hate in our society. The gasoline chambers weren’t the…