Deirdre Bardolf
The Archive
NYC Jewish family pummeled at 5th-grade commencement by attendees shouting 'Free Palestine,' mom says
June 23, 2024 | 6:01amA Jewish mom and her husband were attacked and beaten at a Brooklyn elementary school graduation by an Arabic-speaking family
Car wars: Brooklyn teachers battle over spots in parking lot shared by two schools
June 22, 2024 | 11:35amA parking war is causing a whole lot of trouble for special education teachers at a Brooklyn school where employees from the neighboring high school are bullying them away.
NYC teacher group behind anti-Israel walkouts gets thousands in George Soros funding
June 22, 2024 | 11:15amTeachers Unite, a registered not-for-profit based out of the Financial District, received $11,000 from the billionaire left-wing investor's social justice philanthropy.
Support swells for Maud Maron, an NYC mom ejected from the school board for denouncing anti-semitism
June 22, 2024 | 9:47amSupport for a Manhattan mom booted from a parent council for speaking out against antisemitism is ramping up, with over 2,500 emails sent and numerous organizations speaking out.
Schools Chancellor David Banks, 'Intifada High' Principal Debbie Almontaser met with anti-Israel imam, outraging Jewish teachers
June 22, 2024 | 9:08amJewish teachers and families are outraged that NYC schools Chancellor David Banks and a group of top Department of Education officials met with a vocal pro-Palestine leader at his mosque this month.Â
Father's Day spending expected to hit a whopping $22.4B — a number that's still no match for Mother's Day
June 15, 2024 | 5:07pmFather's Day spending is expected to hit $22.4 billion dollars this year, the second highest amount recorded following last year's record of $22.9 billion, according to a survey from the...
NYC to get hit with first heat wave of the summer — with some temps breaking records across the Northeast
June 15, 2024 | 4:32pmThe Big Apple is bracing for temperatures expected to rise through the work week and hit the 90s by Thursday -- the first official day of summer -- and Friday.
Second American tourist goes missing in Greece as string of disappearances and deaths continue
June 15, 2024 | 2:33pmA 70-year-old man who has not yet been identified was last seen on Tuesday in Mathraki, a remote island near the island of Corfu, according to reports.
NYC schoolboard meeting erupts in chaos as 'authoritarian trans activists' protest change to controversial sports resolution
June 15, 2024 | 12:07pmDozens of activists erupted in humming, heckling, yelling, hissing and coughing and blocked the microphone anytime a Community Education Council member or an attendee who they disagreed with spoke.
Tax-paying tennis regulars slam coaches of rich and famous who hog NYC public courts
June 15, 2024 | 8:30amTennis players at Hudson River Park have met their match with upscale coaches who give private lessons on public courts -- and keep them waiting hours to play while they...
Warring NYC school board members booted from posts: 'Unfit to serve in these roles'
June 14, 2024 | 10:47pmTwo warring parent leaders were kicked off their respective school boards Friday in the first such action under a city complaint process created in 2021.
Tensions at full swing after posh prep school kids move in on newly beautified public housing playground
June 9, 2024 | 6:01amThe tug-of-war escalated last week when signs forbidding non-residents from Cassone Playground, also known as "Llama Park," shocked regular visitors but residents contend they have a right to restrict access.
NYC doesn’t have safety agents at more than half its pre-K centers
June 8, 2024 | 9:32pmPre-Ks run community-based organizations, or CBOs, serve roughly 63,000 three- and four-year-olds — about 60% of all preschoolers in the DOE system.
Fiji prime minister, 75, takes bronze in shot put competition, hopes to 'inspire' youth
June 8, 2024 | 4:49pmFiji’s 75-year-old prime minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, won a bronze medal in shot put at an international championship this week.
Popular beach plagued with quicksand as wife suddenly falls hip-deep into hole: 'I dropped like a rock'
June 8, 2024 | 4:12pmJamie Acord was strolling along the water in Popham Beach State Park last weekend with her husband when she suddenly "dropped like a rock" and fell hip-deep into the sand.
Virgin Galactic launches VSS Unity to edge of space before retiring vessel
June 8, 2024 | 3:46pmVirgin Galactic's seventh commercial research mission took off out of New Mexico on Saturday, its last before the company retires its VSS Unity spaceplane.
'Dangerous' heat still in cards for western US, Vegas — Texas, Florida will also bake
June 8, 2024 | 12:53pmHeat advisories are in effect for western Texas and historic heat is in store for Florida, which is bracing for several sizzling days ahead.
Antisemitic hate thrives at NYC's most prestigious public high schools
June 8, 2024 | 12:42pmAt Brooklyn Tech, Stuyvesant and Bronx Science, students have been tormented by peers giving Nazi salutes and accusing them of being part of a “genocide" of Palestinians, while school administrators...
Top NYC private school devolves into a 'hotbed of Jew-hate' as teacher flips off rabbis, group tries to 'cancel' Holocaust survivor: parents
June 2, 2024 | 6:07amLogan Levkoff, a former parent at The Ethical Culture Fieldston School in the Bronx, took to social media this week to share her family's horrifying experience at the school.
Climate activist arrested for slapping apocalyptic sticker over Monet painting in Paris
June 1, 2024 | 5:42pmAn environmental protester was arrested for slapping a sticker over Claude Monet's "Poppy Field" painting at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris on Saturday.