Andrew Tobin
By Andrew Tobin
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News New Square Flouts Building Safety Codes
With some of the hottest days of summer still ahead, New Square, a Hasidic village of the Skverer sect in upstate New York, is a catastrophe waiting to happen, local fire officials say. It is a fear that they have faced each summer for many years. Most of the buildings in the village violate the…
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Culture Higher Tech Lowers Cost Of Genetic Screening
Screening for genetic disorders has come a long way since the first tests for Tay-Sachs disease in the late 1960s. At the time, clinicians screened the Jewish community by measuring enzyme levels in people’s blood. But in the late 1980s, newer genetic tests became available for Tay-Sachs and, soon after, for a range of other…
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News Poll Finds Young Jews Love To Volunteer — But Not Through Jewish Groups
For Jewish social service and advocacy groups, it is a good news/bad news sort of survey: Most young Jews volunteer for social projects, according to a recent, widely discussed poll, but few of them connect this with their Jewish identity, nor do many of them choose Jewish organizations as places at which to volunteer. The…
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News Jewish Groups Spearhead Effort To Find Missing Indiana University Student
The synagogue where Lauren Spierer became a bat mitzvah, and the Jewish campus center that she frequented are among the groups leading the effort to find the Indiana University sophomore, who has been missing for nearly two weeks. Police say that the 20-year-old Spierer was last seen walking home from a friend’s apartment in the…
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News New Square: Where Tradition and the Rebbe Rule
Residents of this Hasidic enclave a mere hour north of Times Square do not live like people in most of the state or, indeed, like most of the country. Among other things, New Square residents must walk streets strictly divided by gender, with women on one side and men on the other, as Yiddish signs…
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