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Breaking News Menachem Stark Painted by Orthodox Media as Saint — Not Slumlord
(JTA) — The murder of Menachem Stark has sparked intense media scrutiny of the Brooklyn real estate developer’s troubled business record, prompting the New York Post to ask “Who didn’t want him dead?” on its front page. But while mainstream media outlets scrutinized the Satmar hasid’s relationships with tenants, contractors and lenders, haredi Orthodox publications…
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News One Hasidic Housewife’s Inspiring — and Unusual — Journey to College and Beyond
On a cold spring evening last year, my Jewish literature professor took his Sarah Lawrence College class to a klezmer performance by the band Zion80, a mash-up inspired by the music of Shlomo Carlebach and Fela Kuti. Inside the small, stuffy room at The Stone, a music venue in New York City, I watched students…
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Breaking News Menachem Stark’s Suspected Killer Caught in Breakthrough Video
A new surveillance video offers the first look at a possible suspect in the murder of Brooklyn real estate developer Menachem Stark. The just-released footage shows a man parking a white Dodge Caravan with Ohio license plates down the block from Stark’s real estate office in the Williamsburg section just before 5 pm on Jan….
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News Who Was Menachem Stark — and Why Was He Murdered?
When Menachem Stark still hadn’t come home late in the evening of January 2, his wife started to get scared. It had snowed several inches in Brooklyn that night, and the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Williamsburg was coated in white. His wife Bashie Stark called a friend, who called a member of the Orthodox Shomrim security…
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Breaking News Menachem Stark Murder Reward Raised to $72K
The reward for information in the murder of Brooklyn real estate developer Menachem Stark has been raised to $72,000, with his family contributing $50,000. “There are 7 orphans in Brooklyn, and a loving grieving wife,” Rabbi David Niederman, Executive Director of United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg. ” And we hope and pray there will be…
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Breaking News Few Strong Leads in Menachem Stark Murder Probe
Police admit they have no suspects and few strong leads in the investigation into the shocking kidnap and murder of Brooklyn real estate developer Menachem Stark. Police Commissioner William Bratton said police are hoping than information about the van used to snatch Stark from his office in Williamsburg last Thursday night may jumpstart the tangled…
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Breaking News Menachem Stark Died When Kidnappers Sat on His Chest, Police Believe
Slain Brooklyn real estate developer Menachem Stark reportedly died from “compression asphyxiation,” likely caused when his attackers sat on him after kidnapping him in a van, several sources reported. Police believe Stark, a prominent member of the Satmar Hasidic community, was already dead when his attackers set his body on fire and tossed it in…
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Opinion Judging Menachem Stark’s Jewish Life — Not Just His Death
A man was murdered last week. By many news accounts, he was a crook. He also happened to be a Haredi Jew. Does the last fact matter? Yes, according to the politicians who have fallen over themselves to condemn the New York Post’s typically tasteless coverage of the death, which included the headline — based…
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