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Breaking News 2 Days, 2 Assaults on Jews in Midwood, Brooklyn
An Orthodox Jewish teenager was attacked in Midwood, Brooklyn, less than 24 hours after a 60-year-old Jewish man was beaten and robbed there. The boy, 17, was punched in the face and knocked into the street in the heavily-Jewish neighborhood in New York’s most-populous borough while walking home from his yeshiva at approximately 6:30 p.m….
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Breaking News Second Brooklyn Hasid Cleared in 2013 Attack on Gay Black Man
Charges against a Hasidic man accused with four others of beating an African-American man in New York City have been dismissed. Joseph Fried, 27, is the second member of the group to have charges dropped in the 2013 assault in Brooklyn of college student Taj Patterson. Patterson, 24, lost vision in his right eye as…
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News New York Yeshivas Get City Funds for Guards — at Cost of $19M
Government funded sentries will soon be guarding nonpublic schools in New York’s five boroughs, thanks to a major victory won by Orthodox Jewish advocates after a year of tough political defeats. A security guard bill passed by New York’s city council in early December is the first in the country to guarantee religious schools city…
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Breaking News Luxe Condos Planned for Iconic Streit’s Matzo Building on Lower East Side
Developers are a step closer to building condominiums on the historic former site of Streit’s Mazo factory in Manhattan. Manhattan-based Cogswell Realty filed tentative plans with the New York attorney general’s office to build 45 residential condo units, a commercial condo and 26 storage units on the property, The Real Deal reported. According to the…
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News Haunting Photos Reveal Jewish Mom’s Metro-North Crash Tragedy
A trove of federal investigatory documents and eerie photos from February’s deadly collision between a New York commuter train and an SUV driven by suburban Jewish mom Ellen Brody still can’t answer why she appeared not to realize that she was in mortal danger. The National Transportation Safety Board made its file public Wednesday and…
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Breaking News Elderly Brooklyn Hasidic Man Attacked in Manhattan’s Chelsea
A New York City Councilman is decrying a daylight attack on a 67-year-old Hasidic man in the heart of Chelsea. Shlomy Schwartz, 67, of Brooklyn was set upon at 6th Avenue and 17th Street soon after exiting the subway, The assailant “punched him in the back of his head knocking off his hat, Yarmulke, and…
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Breaking News Arson-Plagued Bukharian Jews in Queens Now Being Hit by Trash Fires
A second arsonist has struck the Bukharian Jewish community in Queens, where seven homes under construction or renovation have been torched, officials said. This time, it’s a suspected copycat fire starter, New York City police said Friday, and the target is mounds of rubbish. In a short window of time late last Wednesday, the new…
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Opinion Why Chief Rabbi Couldn’t Be More Wrong About Conservative School
Rabbi David Lau’s condemnation this week of Naftali Bennett’s visit to the Solomon Schechter School of Manhattan was shortsighted and inaccurate in many ways. Most close to home for me, it denigrated the vital work we are doing at Schechter Manhattan to nurture positive Jewish identity in our students, the future leaders of the American…
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