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Breaking News Etan Patz Case Remains Flimsy, Cops Say
The case against the New Jersey man who confessed to killing little Etan Patz is “flimsy,” and police reportedly say there is little or no hard evidence linking him to the notorious crime. Despite an intensive investigation, detectives have found nothing to tie Pedro Hernandez to the murder of the 6-year-old boy as he walked…
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Breaking News Dentists Sue for $5M Over Sandy Crane Collapse
Two New York City dentists have filed a $5 million lawsuit against the contractor at a nearly completed 90-story luxury apartment building, blaming it for the collapse of the top of a construction crane during superstorm Sandy. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan on Friday, said the contractor, Australia’s Lend Lease Construction…
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News Nanny Stabbing Victims’ Family Belongs to JCC
The Upper West Side family whose young children were allegedly murdered by their nanny on Thursday are members of the JCC in Manhattan, the organization said today. It’s unclear whether the parents, Kevin and Marina Krim, are Jewish. The family has a pool membership at the JCC, according to Erica Werber, the group’s senior director…
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Opinion Avert Your Eyes from the Big Apple!
“Dear Jew: You are entering a dangerous place. Shield your eyes.” That’s the Hebrew-language text on a huge billboard that an Orthodox group has paid to post alongside a Brooklyn highway. The “dangerous place” is Manhattan. The danger isn’t specified, but it’s clear they’re not talking about muggings. Presumably directed at ultra-Orthodox Jews traveling to…
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Opinion Occupy Camp Kinderland
On the fringes of the Occupy movement’s May 1 rally in Manhattan’s Union Square, a group of older Jewish activists gathered under the yellow banner of a leftist Jewish summer camp and prepared to march. “We have to be here,” said Judee Rosenbaum, longtime staffer of the unremittingly progressive Camp Kinderland. “It’s what we do….
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Opinion Only Nice Words for Obama
You wouldn’t expect a host to say anything bad about his guest of honor. But American Council for World Jewry chairman Jack Rosen was especially gracious about the message delivered by President Obama at a fundraiser held at Rosen’s Manhattan home. “He made, I think, a solid case for having stood with Israel on the…
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News Synagogue Hopes To Build Mosque’s Trust
When members of New York City’s West End Synagogue were recently disinvited at the 11th hour from a long-anticipated Friday gathering with Muslims at Harlem’s Masjid Aqsa, some involved in organizing the meeting feared that hard-line mosque members were behind the cancelation. But at the synagogue the next morning, the mosque’s imam, Souleimane Konate, showed…
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The Schmooze Sukkah City’s Cross-Country Plans in 2011
It may be hard to believe, but Sukkah City — the ambitious, large-scale architectural competition that took over Manhattan’s Union Square Park for two days last week — came from modest beginnings. “The idea came to me this past fall while I was doing sketches for my own backyard sukkah,” co-founder Joshua Foer told the…
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