Eddy Portnoy
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Culture Jewish Gangster Lured to Revenge Shooting at Restaurant on E. 14th Street
Forward Looking Back brings you the stories that were making news in the Forward’s Yiddish paper 100, 75, and 50 years ago. Check back each week for a new set of illuminating, edifying and sometimes wacky clippings from the Jewish past. 1913 •100 years ago Gangster Billy Lustig Shot New York City Police suspect that…
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Culture Man Steals Family Photos So Not To Appear Forverts’ ‘Missing Husbands’ Gallery
Forward Looking Back brings you the stories that were making news in the Forward’s Yiddish paper 100, 75, and 50 years ago. Check back each week for a new set of illluminating, edifying and sometimes wacky clippings from the Jewish past. 1913 •100 years ago Becky Sher Wants a Get Becky Sher of Winnipeg wanted…
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News Plumber’s Illicit Affair Ends With Acid Attack in Ice Cream Parlor
Forward Looking Back brings you the stories that were making news in the Forward’s Yiddish paper 100, 75, and 50 years ago. Check back each week for a new set of illluminating, edifying and sometimes wacky clippings from the Jewish past. 1913 •100 years ago An Affair in the Bronx David and Bessie Aberman and…
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Culture Shakedown Artist ‘Red Shirt Abie’ Convicted for Poisoning Deliverymen’s Horses
Forward Looking Back brings you the stories that were making news in the Forward’s Yiddish paper 100, 75, and 50 years ago. Check back each week for a new set of illuminating, edifying and sometimes wacky clippings from the Jewish past. 100 years ago Horse Poisoner Busted Dozens of businessmen — some victims, others simply…
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Culture Moyshe the Shtarker, Jewish Gangster, Stabbed and Shot
100 years ago Gangster Stabbed and Shot Morris Reich, better known on the Lower East Side as Moyshe the Shtarker, was standing in front of a pool hall and smoking a cigar on Avenue B near Eighth Street last Thursday afternoon when three young men walked up to him, seemingly in order to engage him…
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Culture Lower East Side Physician Arrested for Dealing Cocaine and Opium
Forward Looking Back brings you the stories that were making news in the Forward’s Yiddish paper 100, 75, and 50 years ago. Check back each week for a new set of illuminating, edifying and sometimes wacky clippings from the Jewish past. 100 years ago 1913 Abraham Glickstein, a well-known physician who resides on Manhattan’s Lower…
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Culture Fraternity Branch Closes To Avoid Jewish Members
Forward Looking Back brings you the stories that were making news in the Forward’s Yiddish paper 100, 75, and 50 years ago. Check back each week for a new set of illuminating, edifying and sometimes wacky clippings from the Jewish past. 100 Years Ago 1913 The Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, an organization of secret societies…
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Culture Bertrand Russell Calls Out Nikita Khrushchev
Forward Looking Back brings you the stories that were making news in the Forward’s Yiddish paper 100, 75, and 50 years ago. Check back each week for a new set of illuminating and edifying clippings from the Jewish past. 100 years ago 1913 The American-Romanian Jewish Emancipation Committee held a gala affair at the Waldorf…
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