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Fast Forward Ultra-Orthodox Ambulance Service Faces Scrutiny After 7-Year-Old Girl Drowns
Hatzolah, private ambulance service run by ultra-Orthodox Jews, is being accused of failing to notify police after a 7-year-old girl drowned in New York’s Rockland County. Responders from Hatzolah took the girl, who drowned in a private pool in Pomona, New York, to a local medical center. Police have ruled the death an accident. Police…
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Breaking News Should New York Remove Statues Of Its Anti-Semitic Governor?
(JTA) — Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, Stonewall Jackson … and Peter Stuyvesant? One of these things is not like the others. Amid the impassioned debate over whether, when and how to remove statues memorializing the Confederacy, an Israeli nonprofit is seeking a piece of the action. On Tuesday, Shurat HaDin, which represents terror victims…
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Culture From The Archives: Riot In New York At German Ship Bremen; Swastika Torn Down And Thrown Into Hudson River
The following article was published on the front page above the fold on July 28, 1935 — two days after the Bremen incident. Riot In New York At German Ship Bremen; Swastika Torn Down And Thrown Into Hudson River Around 2,000 anti-Nazis, communists, Catholics and sailors participated in yesterday’s dreadful riot that took place at…
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Culture From The Archives: How Mayor La Guardia Laughed Off The Nazis
The following article was published on the front page above the fold on July 31, 1935 — five days after the Bremen incident. Berliners Send Protest Of Damaged Swastika Flag On The Bremen Ship To Governor Lehman On July 30, the State Department received an official protest of the Nazi government in Berlin against the…
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Culture From The Archives: America Regrets, No Apologies For The Bremen Demonstration; Germany Experiencing New Pogrom
The following article was published on the front page above the fold on August 2, 1935 — seven days after the Brenen incident. America Regrets, No Apologies For The Bremen Demonstration; Berlin Experiencing New Pogrom Terror State Department Defends Police Answer To Berlin’s Protest — Says German Ship Company Owners Are Guilty Ones Who Were…
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Culture From The Archives: Brodsky Calls Nazi Flag A Pirate Flag; Frees The Bremen Riot 5
The following article was published on the front page above the fold on September 7, 1935 — a little over a month after the July 26 Bremen incident. Brodsky Calls Nazi Flag A Pirate Flag; Frees The Bremen Riot 5 Magistrate Louis Brodsky freed yesterday the five youth who were arrested for tearing down the…
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Life How Loyal Customers Saved 83-Year-Old West Side Judaica From Shutting Down
“The rent went up and the sales went down,” explains Yaakov Saltzer matter-of-factly over the phone when discussing his decision to close down the 83-year-old West Side Judaica shop he has owned since the early 1980s. That is, until sales started going up again. Following a July report in West Side Rag announcing the store’s…
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Fast Forward NY City Council Candidate Rallies At Judaica Shop To Save Manhattan Businesses
A candidate for New York City Council is organizing a Tuesday rally against high business rents at West Side Judaica, a much-loved community institution on Manhattan’s Upper West Side that is slated to close due to mounting costs. “Every one of us has lost favorite stores and restaurants in recent years. These institutions, like Judaica,…
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