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Fast Forward Nazi Graffiti Scrawled On Upper East Side Subway
Anti-Semitic graffiti was found Friday morning on Manhattan’s Upper East Side – scrawled on the wall of the East 86th Street of the 4, 5 and 6 trains. The graffiti – left in three areas on the platform and reported by DNAInfo – included the word “Nazi” and a swastika. The MTA said that it…
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Fast Forward Elie Wiesel Gets Upper West Side Street Named In His Honor
(JTA) — New York City has named a street after Holocaust survivor, author and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel. The southwest corner of 84th Street and Central Park West on the Upper West Side was renamed Elie Wiesel Way during a ceremony on Tuesday. Wiesel was “perhaps the most eloquent voice for peace in…
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Fast Forward Neighbors Sue Over Upper West Side Synagogue’s 9-Story Expansion
New York’s oldest synagogue is having a hard time erecting a new building, as community groups on the Upper West Side file suit against a city agency to stop Shearith Israel’s planned expansion. According to the suit filed against New York’s Board of Standards and Appeals – a body which oversees zoning issues – the…
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Culture Caught At Gunpoint, I Had The Best Shabbes Of My Life
I was June 1, 1971, and I was 18 years old. I’d signed a lease with no guarantors for a four-room tenement apartment at 505 West 122nd Street, complete with mice and roaches, just off heroin-ridden Amsterdam Avenue on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Sam Weintraub from Great Neck, New York, couldn’t be too choosy for…
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Community How I Lost My Judaism In Five Somber Nights — And Found It Again My Own Way
Twice in my life did the profound symbiosis of community and Judaism yank me by the beard and bear its inescapable weight. The first time came during my father’s shiva. After four months of communal support during his time in the hospital, the Jews of Englewood, New Jersey, my Jews, multiplied their Samsonian efforts, filling…
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News Israeli Nightlife Icon Found Strangled in Manhattan Home
Savyon Zabar, an Israeli-born club operator and fixture of New York gay nightlife, was found strangled in his uptown apartment Wednesday morning, in what New York police have ruled a homicide. “He was really well known,” Carlos Arenas, who used to work the door at one of the clubs that Zabar managed and promoted, told…
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Fast Forward 94-Year-Old Manhattan Man Threatened With Pre-Hanukkah Eviction
Maxwell Levy seems to be due for a December visit from Scrooge, as his landlords attempt once more to evict the nonagenarian from his six-room apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. “They want to get my apartment because they can make a lot more money,” the 94-year-old, who has lived in the same building since…
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News More Swastikas Found on Manhattan’s Upper West Side
The swastika sighted this week on 104th Street and Broadway in Manhattan was one of several hateful scrawlings in the neighborhood, according to local reports. A number of buildings and phone booths between 104th and 105th Streets on Broadway were tagged with swastikas, “KKK” and “Nazi,” DNAInfo reported. All the graffiti appeared to be done…
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