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Breaking News Tensions Between Hasids And Latinos Boil Over As Vote Nears On Controversial Brooklyn Project
For nearly 30 years, three ethnic groups with growing housing needs — Hasidic Jews, Latinos and African-Americans — have been eying the same few vacant lots in Brooklyn as a location for a possible housing development. At a City Council hearing on Tuesday to discuss a massive residential project proposed on those grounds, tensions boiled…
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Fast Forward Kushner Co. Is Really Trying To Unload This Brooklyn Brownstone
Kushner Companies is lowering its expectations – and its price – on a ultra-luxury townhouse in Brooklyn Heights that it’s hoping to flip a seven-figure profit. The property, a 20-foot-wide brownstone with 7,000 square feet of living space, had been on the market for $11.25 million until a recent change in brokers – with the…
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Fast Forward Brooklyn Kosher Bakery Hit With Anti-Semitic Flyer
(JTA) — An anti-Semitic flyer that threatens Jews sent to a kosher bakery in Brooklyn is under investigation by police. The notice sent to the Weiss Bakery in the haredi Orthodox neighborhood of Boro Park this week read: “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!! JUDEN RAUS (jews out). N***|**S AND F***|**S MUST BURN IN HELL. CHRISTIAN IDENTITY…
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Fast Forward Brooklyn Kosher Bakery Gets Nazi Propaganda In Mail
Weiss Kosher Bakery in Brooklyn was hit with anti-Semitic messages on Monday, after mail was delivered to the Borough Park cake and cookie shop that included a Nazi swastika and other Third Reich slogans. “Make America Great Again” read the typed-out message, delivered via mail. “Juden Raus. Negroes and faggots must burn in hell. Christian…
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Fast Forward Jewish Woman Helps Eritrean Refugees Get Settled In Brooklyn
A Jewish woman and her rabbi husband are helping two Eritrean refugees get settled in New York City – after the mother and daughter arrived in the United States earlier this month. “I got a call and they said, ‘Your friend Saba has been approved and would you consider being her U.S. sponsor,’” Mara Getz…
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Fast Forward He Set Up Hooker Sex Tape To Keep Abuse Victim Quiet: Police
NEW YORK (JTA) — Three people were indicted for participating in a scheme to pressure an alleged sexual abuse victim not to testify against her abuser, an Orthodox Brooklyn man. The alleged abuser, Samuel Israel, was arraigned Tuesday along with Tanya Freudenthaler and Vincent Paro, a private detective, acting Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said…
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Community Why Is Mayor DeBlasio Turning A Blind Eye To The Hasidic Education Crisis In Our City?
I grew up illiterate and uneducated and I am a graduate of a premier Hasidic Jewish Day school in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Hasidic Day schools are similar to Sunday schools, with one big difference — they run all week long. I learned nothing relevant to the 21st century modern workforce at school. At age 26,…
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Fast Forward Judge Blocks Demolition Of Historic Brooklyn Synagogue
(JTA) — A New York judge has issued a temporary restraining order to block the demolition of a century-old Brooklyn synagogue to make way for an apartment building. The order came after 17 members of the Chevra Anshei Lubavitch synagogue in the Borough Park neighborhood said they did not know about the deal by two…
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