Swastika arrest: A 45-year-old woman was charged with spray-painting a swastika on a billboard opposing antisemitism in Borough Park earlier this month. The woman said she was Jewish and expressed anger at her own family, the New York Daily News reports.
Fire starter: Police are looking for a suspect who threw flaming objects through the gates and onto the grounds of the Brotherhood Synagogue on Gramercy Park South Thursday. No one was hurt, CBSNewYork reports.
Sea change: Gary Brownstein, the smiling face of “Fish Fridays” at the Acme Smoked Fish headquarters in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, is retiring after 47 years at the family-run lox and herring empire. Our Julia Gergely reports.
Breaking the mold: Jessie Sampter, who grew up in Harlem, moved to Palestine in 1919 where she fit few of the stereotypes of the rugged, able-bodied Zionists of her day. The New York Jewish Week’s Andrew Silow-Carroll talks with the author of a new biography of the “queer, disabled” writer and kibbutznik.
The streets where she lived: Frieda Vizel, a former member of the Satmar Hasidic community, is the only licensed New York City tour guide leading walking tours of the Hasidic neighborhood of South Williamsburg in Brooklyn, the Times of Israel reports.