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News No more Pickle Bar: As pandemic wears on, venerable Jewish delis struggle to survive
Shapiro’s Delicatessen in Indianapolis survived the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic. It survived World War I, World War II and the Great Depression, along with countless other travails and trends that have sunk most family businesses since the dawn of the 20th century. But third-generation owner Brian Shapiro said none of that compares to the coronavirus…
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Fast Forward New York garbage men help Williamsburg Jews go on an hours long tefillin hunt
A group of Brooklyn Jews went on an extended dumpster dive Monday night in a hunt for a sacred object: a pair of tefillin that had been accidentally discarded. The leather straps and boxes that Orthodox Jewish men wear to prayer, which contain holy scriptures, were noticed missing on Thursday according to NBC New York….
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Culture What I’ll miss if New York shuts down: sharing space with strangers
I learned Joe Biden was our president-elect when honks and shouts erupted outside my Manhattan window. That morning, my partner and I made our way downstairs to investigate, joining dozens of people who had paused their Saturday routines to go outside and make noise. An elderly man was playing bagpipes on the corner. Others were…
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News The Jewish couple behind the Central Park women’s statue
When the statue of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and Sojourner Truth was unveiled in Central Park, becoming the first statue in Central Park to honor historical women, the Jewish couple largely responsible for making it happen watched the proceedings via Livestream from their home in La Jolla. The former longtime New Yorkers couldn’t…
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News NYC cuts funding for hate crime prevention initiative
The New York City Council has scrapped a $1 million initiative to prevent hate crimes from its upcoming annual budget. The budget cuts, originally reported by Next City, targeted funding for the Hate Crimes Prevention Initiative in the year-old Office of Hate Crimes Prevention. Last year, the $1 million had been divided up among 15…
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Fast Forward Ancient City Found In Israel During Off-Ramp Construction
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Archaeological excavations in northern Israel in preparation to build a highway off-ramp uncovered a 5,000-year-old city that was home to as many as 6,000 residents. It is one of the first and largest early Bronze Age settlements excavated in Israel, according to the Israel Antiquities Authority, which announced the discovery on Sunday….
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Fast Forward 2nd Assault This Week Against Orthodox Jewish Man In Crown Heights
(JTA) — For the second time in less than a week, an identifiably Jewish man has been attacked in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn with a stone. Police said a group of men threw a rock at a delivery driver, an Orthodox Jew, as he sat in his truck at the corner of Brooklyn…
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Opinion This Orthodox Family And Their Yeshiva Are In A Legal Battle Over Vaccines
Last week, a federal court in Brooklyn became the latest battleground in the New York vaccine wars, further testing whether parents can exempt themselves from their legal obligation to vaccinate their children. The stakes keep getting higher. The CDC has already confirmed 981 cases of the measles in 2019 — more than any year in…
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