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News Why Were 2 Homeless Men Found Dead at Brooklyn Jewish Elementary School?
Just after midnight at an Orthodox Jewish elementary school in Brooklyn, Elliott Gordon found a man turning blue on the floor of the chapel. Gordon had been sitting in a filthy dormitory room upstairs when he heard a voice in the hallway say that a man named Moshe had collapsed. It was Gordon’s first night…
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Breaking News Sarah Mayer, Faigy’s Older Sister, Hangs Herself Months After Roof Plunge
The older sister of a former Hasidic woman who killed herself four months ago by jumping off of a rooftop bar in Manhattan died after hanging herself. Sarah Mayer, 31, was found dead on Sunday afternoon in her parents’ home in Borough Park, the New York Daily News reported. Her death comes four months after…
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Breaking News 2 Busted in Brooklyn Egg Attack on Orthodox Teen
The New York Police Department has made two arrests in an egg-throwing attack in Brooklyn targeting an Orthodox Jewish teenager. The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force has the suspects, both adolescents, in custody, Yeshiva World News reported Thursday. They reportedly are white males. The attack, captured on surveillance video, took place at 2 a.m. Saturday…
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Breaking News Brooklyn Eggings of Jews Treated as Hate Crimes
New York police are treating two separate egging incidents in a Brooklyn neighborhood as hate crimes. A group of men reportedly threw eggs at a Jewish man, 23, at 1 a.m. Saturday in Borough Park. Several minutes later, the group egged two Jewish boys, ages 17 and 14. The assailants reportedly threatened to “shoot and…
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Breaking News Arrest Made in Second Attack on Jews in Crown Heights
A Brooklyn man accused of punching an Orthodox Jewish man and knocking the cellphone from his hand was arrested. Christian Rojas, 36, allegedly assaulted the Jewish man, who was on his way to synagogue in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, early Wednesday morning, WABC News reported. The assault took place just hours after the…
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Breaking News Jewish Paramedic Stabbed in Brooklyn — Hate Crime Eyed
A member of a Jewish volunteer emergency service was stabbed in the neck in Brooklyn and police were investigating the attack as a possible anti-Semitic hate crime. The man, identified by the New York Post as David Katz, 34, a volunteer for Hatzalah, radioed in his own injury after the attack on Tuesday night in…
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The Schmooze WATCH Jimmy Kimmel Plays ‘Hipster or Hasidic’
Can you tell a hipster from a Hasid based on just a shot of their lips? That’s what Jimmy Kimmel tried to find out on Thursday night while shooting his show, “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” in Brooklyn. “Between the hipster community and the Hasidic community here in Brooklyn, Brooklyn is by far the most bearded spot…
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News BDS Battle at Brooklyn College Is Written in Chalk
Just a trace of the chalk slogans is all that remains on the sidewalk outside the entrance to the West Quad section of Brooklyn College. But the slogans, part of a form of protest and expression that has surfaced on the Midwood campus this past month, are yet another indication of the longstanding tensions between…
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