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Fast Forward Where do NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ potential successors stand on Israel and Jewish issues?
What you need to know about Jumaane Williams, Brad Lander and others hoping to be the next mayor of New York City
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Fast Forward What Eric Adams’ Jewish supporters and critics are saying after his indictment
Adams' connections in the Jewish community may assist him as he fights the charges and the political firestorm they have ignited
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Culture In place of a proud emblem of Jewish immigration in NYC, million-dollar condos and a private garden
Gentrification comes for the Bialystoker Center and Home for the Aged
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Fast Forward NYC officially recognizes Landing Day, when the first Jewish community arrived in 1654
Three hundred and seventy years ago this week, 23 Sephardic Jews arrived in New York and established the first Jewish community
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Fast Forward NYPD reports 19 antisemitic incidents in August as anti-Muslim acts also spike
The August number of alleged attacks on Jews was higher than the 12 recorded over the same month last year, but relatively low in the 11 months since numbers started spiking after Oct. 7
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Film & TV Before ‘The Warriors’ was a cult movie — or a Lin-Manuel Miranda album — it had radical Jewish roots
Sol Yurick, the son of immigrant communists, wrote the novel that was adapted by the ‘Hamilton’ creator
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Fast Forward NYPD reports 30 antisemitic incidents in July, 3 times higher than last year
Jews were targeted more than all other groups combined last month, as they have been nearly every month since Oct. 2023
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Politics Who is Brad Lander, who just jumped in the New York City mayor’s race?
A Lander primary campaign could split the city’s large population of Jewish Democratic voters at a time when antisemitism has spiked in New York, and when the streets have been filled with protests over the Israel-Hamas war
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