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Opinion I’m an Orthodox Mom and I Want City To Probe Brooklyn Yeshivas
Faigy Mayer took her own life on July 20, . Despite its geographical proximity to her birthplace, she was light years from her roots. Faigy was born into a Hasidic family in Brooklyn and didn’t mince words about her former life in what amounted to a suicide note posthumously published soon after her death. In…
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News Faigy Mayer’s Brave Life and Shocking Death
Faigy Mayer left the Belz community, a Hasidic enclave in Brooklyn’s Boro Park, in 2010. She was 24 years old. Five years later, having finally made the move to Manhattan, she was seemingly self-sufficient. She had an undergraduate degree from Touro College under her belt, and she was pursuing her master’s in accounting and computer…
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Breaking News Orthodox Jews and Kosher Market Hit by Paintballs in Brooklyn
Police are searching for suspects who targeted a kosher market and some Orthodox Jewish individuals in Brooklyn with a paintball gun. On June 29, Bondo’s 24 supermarket in the Williamsburg section and 62-year-old Chaim Klein were hit with paintballs. An unnamed man and his two grandchildren walking home from synagogue were targeted as well on…
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Breaking News Rabbi Dies After Livery Cab Runs Over Him 3 Times
A Lubavitcher rabbi was struck three times by a livery cab in Brooklyn on June 29, killing him. The rabbi, Yekutiel Rapp, 66, was hit on a street near his home in the Crown Heights neighborhood. The livery cab hit Rapp while attempting to reverse into a parking space, then sped over him. “People were…
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News Boxer Dustin Fleischer Steps Into Ring Packing Power of Survivor’s Punch
UPDATE: With the local crowd behind him at the Barclays Center, Fleischer scored a quick knockout Saturday night against Kareem Milner in his second professional fight.. Fleischer’s fast hands and aggressive style pushed Millner to the ropes right away. After barely a minute, with Milner seemingly about to keel over, the referee stepped. Fleischer’s record…
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Breaking News Black Bus Driver Sues Hasidic School Over Firing
An African-American bus driver for a haredi Orthodox Jewish school in Brooklyn filed a $2 million lawsuit against the school alleging discrimination. The lawsuit by Willis Baker against the U of Boro Park was filed recently in U.S. District Court in New York, according to Newsweek, which first reported the lawsuit on Tuesday. Baker was…
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Breaking News BDS Feud Returns to Brooklyn’s Park Slope Food Coop
Monthly general meetings at the Park Slope Food Coop are usually staid affairs. Roughly 200 of the 16,500 members typically attend to discuss routine matters and get credit for the shift everyone is required to work. But last month’s meeting was different. With a discussion on boycotting Israeli company SodaStream on the agenda, around 400…
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Culture The Sephardic Bibliophile of Brooklyn
On a nondescript street of brick row houses, nestled between an insurance office and a computer store, in an out of the way corner of Brooklyn known as Marine Park that is not on any subway lines, lies a small storefront. From the street, it’s impossible to see in — the glass windows are blocked…
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