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Hasidic Village’s Neighbors Have Slaughterhouse Blues

By Nathaniel Popper

Evelyn Moses’s family has owned the unincorporated plot of land on which she lives, an hour drive north of New York City, for decades. When she inherited it in 1994, it was surrounded on all sides by trees, with a small dirt road running alongside it. “Nice country living,” she said.Read More

Former Agriprocessors CEO Rubashkin Sent to Prison

By Nathaniel Popper

Sholom Rubashkin, a former executive at the Agriprocessors kosher meat company, was found guilty of 86 counts of bank fraud committed while managing the company’s finances — a verdict that could land him in prison for life.Read More

Sy Syms, Retail Magnate and Y.U. Benefactor, Dies at 83

By Josh Nathan-Kazis

Sy Syms, the founder of the discount retail clothing chain Syms and the founding board member of the Sy Syms School of Business at New York’s Yeshiva University, died November 17. He was 83, and the cause of death was heart failure.Read More

It’s Off to the Races With a Jockey Named Cohen

By Josh Nathan-Kazis

It’s the sixth race at New York’s Aqueduct Racetrack, and David Cohen is rounding into the home stretch on the back of a black filly named Beautiful Pear. He is crouched over her, the both of them gray from splattered dirt, his whip slapping furiously at the filly’s right shoulder as they battle toward the grandstand.Read More

Shalom Y’all: New Rabbi Lights Up Southern Town

By Allison Gaudet Yarrow

After her historic ordination and the swarm of press coverage it triggered, mainstream Judaism’s first black woman rabbi, Alysa Stanton, settles into her new role, leading a small congregation in Greenville, N.CRead More

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