Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Brooklyn, a borough of New York City home to a major population of Hasidic Jews.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Brooklyn, a borough of New York City home to a major population of Hasidic Jews.
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Fast Forward Syrian Jewish Businessman Snags Priciest Home in Brooklyn
Joseph Sitt, the founder of the global real estate firm Thor Equities, is the secretivebuyer of Brooklyn’s priciest residential property last year. The $11.6 million house is in Gravesend, the seat of the Syrian Jewish community that Sitt was born into and to which he still belongs. The house is 5,000 square feet, and its…
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Fast Forward Hasidic Matzoh Factory With No Sprinkler System Damaged In Brooklyn Blaze
A Brooklyn matzoh factory owned by a Satmar Hasidic congregation burned on Tuesday after the owners failed to install a sprinkler system, workers and the New York Fire Department said. The fire broke out in the wee hours of morning, in a wood-burning stove that was being used for the first time. Operated by the…
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Fast Forward Protesters Chant ‘Resist or Resign’ Outside Schumer’s Brooklyn Home
Protesters gathered on Monday night in front of the Brooklyn home of Senator Chuck Schumer, calling on the Senate Minority Leader to thwart President Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks. Slogans included “Resist or resign,” “Chuck! Chuck! Don’t sell us out! We need a fighter to knock Trump out!” and “No hate! No fear! Refugees are welcome…
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Fast Forward Brooklyn Driver Threatens To Shoot Jewish School Crossing Guard and Student
(JTA) — A driver threatened to shoot a crossing guard and a child outside a Jewish day school in Crown Heights, New York. The school crossing guard, 55, had asked the driver to move his car, which was blocking the sidewalk outside the Beth Rivkah Elementary School. The driver then asked the guard: “Why are…
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News Brooklyn Menorah Displays Vandalized in Anti-Semitic Hate Crime
Four days into Hanukkah, Brooklyn Rabbi Mendy Hecht discovered two public menorah displays vandalized on Tuesday morning, in what the New York Police Department and Parks Department are investigating as an anti-Semitic hate crime. “Taken out of its place, torn apart, broken. … That’s something more than I’ve ever experienced,” the Chabad rabbi told DNAInfo,…
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Fast Forward Happy Hanukkah — Cut the Chit Chat With Cousin Gertrude!
It’s Hanukkah time, but don’t get carried away with the holiday spirit. Fliers posted in ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods of New York City warn: amidst your Hanukkah parties, dreidel spinning and menorah lighting — don’t let the men and women mix. There should be no engaging in “unnecessary chatting,” “frivolous laughter,” or “playing games together.” This even…
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News Satmar Hasidic Activist Isaac Sofer Arrested for Food Stamp Fraud
The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested prominent Brooklyn Satmar community activist Isaac Sofer on Thursday morning on charges that he lied in order to obtain food stamps. Updated, 3:00 P.M. Sofer manages government relations for the Central United Talmudical Academy, the Williamsburg yeshiva system that serves followers of the politically connected Satmar Grand Rabbi Aron…
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News Orthodox Man Pelted With Ice, Called ‘South Side Jew’ in Brooklyn Attack
An Orthodox man walking to his car in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn was on the receiving end of New York’s post-election hate crime wave, as teens pelted him with ice and shouted at “South Side Jew” at him. “Two kids, they were DNAInfo. “I don’t know what that means.” The epithet might have been…
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