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Mayor Eric Adams. Credit score: Ed Reed/Mayoral Pictures Workplace. New York Metropolis has established its first executive-level bureau targeted on stamping out the scourge of antisemitism within the Huge Apple. Mayor Eric Adams introduced on Tuesday the formation of the Mayor’s Workplace to Fight Antisemitism, a “first-of-its-kind” division tasked with assembling an inter-agency taskforce devoted to preventing antisemitic acts, together with by monitoring courtroom instances and outcomes, and dealing with the NYC Regulation Division on laws and different companies to “ensure New Yorkers feel protected” in opposition to antisemitism and deal with antisemitic incidents. Hateful acts in opposition to Jewish…

NJ Transit and an engineers’ union seem like heading towards a significant rail strike that may begin Friday — the primary one in many years. Presently, either side are in Washington, D.C. taking part in mediation, the place they pledged to proceed negotiations. Representatives for NJ Transit and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers had been referred to as to the capital by federal arbitrators making an attempt to push the 2 sides to succeed in an settlement earlier than a whole lot of 1000’s of riders are impacted by a strike for the primary time since 1983. Although they’ve a number of days to…