Stewart Ain, an award-winning veteran journalist, covers the Jewish community. Follow him on Twitter @AinStewart or email [email protected].
Stewart Ain
By Stewart Ain
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Fast Forward Brooklyn woman arrested for yelling antisemitic death threats and spitting at Jewish children
A 21-year-old woman was arrested Friday for hurling antisemitic invectives at three young Jewish children, threatening to kill them and the spitting in one of their faces. The incident, captured on surveillance video, showed a woman yelling at siblings – 8, 7, and 2 – outside a Brooklyn synagogue, “Hitler should have killed you all….
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News A Holocaust course designed for Muslim students may soon be taught at more schools
Muslim students at a New York private school are taking a course on the Holocaust designed for young followers of Islam, a project backers hope will serve as a model for other Muslim schools. An after-school elective at Brooklyn Amity School, the course has brought a dozen 16 and 17-year-olds together every other week since…
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Fast Forward Indiana state senator backtracks on call for ‘impartial’ teaching on Nazism
At a hearing on his bill to ban teaching on “divisive ideologies,” an Indiana state senator last week said teachers should be impartial in the classroom — even when teaching about Nazism or fascism. “I have no problem with the education system providing instruction on the existence of those isms,” said Republican Scott Baldwin. “I…
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Fast Forward Numbers mark the graves at a former psychiatric hospital’s Jewish cemetery. Families want names — and answers
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — While researching his family tree, Brian Madigan of Locust Grove, Virginia, found something strange: Although his maternal great-great-grandfather had lived in Brooklyn, he was buried in East Islip, on New York’s Long Island. Further research revealed that his relative, Napoleon Hedemark, had been committed to the…
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News Anxiety over Omicron hangs over Jewish gatherings — but the Hanukkah parties go on
The new, fast-spreading Omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus is prompting rabbis, brides and synagogue-goers to wonder whether they need to take extra precautions to keep Jewish gatherings safe. Most Hanukkah events seem to be going on as planned and anxiety over the variant is low-level — but it’s there. “Our phones are ringing with…
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Fast Forward Jewish weddings are back — and so are rising prices, staff shortages and lots of uncertainty
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — After 18 months of barely performing any weddings at all, For Rabbi Howard Buechler of the Dix Hills Jewish Center on Long Island recently found himself with not just one but two requests to officiate on a recent Saturday night. So he enlisted his daughter, Rabbi…
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Fast Forward At least 9 former Nazis died in the U.S. while awaiting deportation. 3 House Democrats want to know why.
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — In 1992, the Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigations learned that before moving to the United States, a Brooklyn potato chip salesman had participated in the liquidation of Jewish ghettos in Poland, including those in Warsaw, Lublin and Czestochowa. And there was evidence that he helped other SS…
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Fast Forward An Orthodox synagogue is suing the city that tried to shut it down
The synagogue is a hazard, charge officials in a Cleveland suburb — with live wires hanging from the ceiling and no fire exits. Earlier this year, the city tried to shut it down. But the Aleksander Shul, an Orthodox congregation in University Heights, is fighting back in court, and last month filed a lawsuit accusing…
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