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News Murdered Hasidic Millionaire Menachem Stark Mourned by Overflow Funeral Crowd
An overflow crowd of hundreds of Hasidic Jews gathered Saturday night at an emotional Brooklyn funeral for murdered millionaire real estate developer Menachem Stark. Grief-stricken speakers at the Lodiner Bais Medrash synagogue in Williamsburg recalled Stark, whose charred corpse was found in a Long Island dumpster, as a generous figure who was always quick to…
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Fast Forward Kidnapped Hasidic Millionaire’s Charred Body Found in Long Island Dumpster
A charred body has been found in a Long Island dumpster and police say the corpse is that of kidnapped Hasidic millionaire Menachem Stark. The body was found Friday afternoon and police say it has been identified as Stark, the prominent Satmar real estate developer who was kidnapped at the height of a blizzard Thursday…
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Fast Forward Hasidic Millionaire Menachem Stark Still Missing After Brooklyn Kidnap
Police and Jewish security patrols were frantically hunting for Hasidic milliionaire real estate developer Menachem Stark and relatives vowed to pay a $100,000 reward for his return after he was reportedly kidnapped outside his Brooklyn office. UPDATE: Body found in dumpster identified as kidnapped developer Menachem Stark: sources. With Shabbat here, efforts to find Stark…
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Fast Forward Basketball Star Tony Parker Caught Making ‘Nazi’ Quenelle Salute
Basketball superstar Tony Parker has reportedly been caught making a Nazi-like salute associated with an anti-Semitic French comedian. The French-born National Basketball Association All-Star was photographed flashing the so-called ‘quenelle,’ which is the trademark gesture of Dieudonne Mbala-Mbala, a controversial French comic who may be banned for promulgating hatred and denying the Holocaust. The SImon…
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Fast Forward French Soccer Star Nicolas Anelka Makes ‘Anti-Semitic’ Quenelle Gesture After Goal
A French soccer star celebrated a goal Saturday by flashing the so-called quenelle salute popularized by comedian Dieudonne Mbala-Mbala, who has been accused of anti-Semitism. Nicolas Anelka made the controversial gesture after scoring the first of two goals for his West Bromwich Albion team against West Ham United in England’s Barclays Premier League. Anelka, a…
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Opinion Watch Limmud Live From Britain
The Limmud conference starts today and continues through Thursday. The Forward is exclusively providing the live stream of the event in North America.
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Fast Forward Nelson Mandela Foundation Denies Israel Training Claim
The Nelson Mandela Foundation has denied an explosive report that the South African freedom icon received training from Israeli agents in the early 1960s. “(The foundation) has not located any evidence in Nelson Mandela’s private archive…that he interacted with an Israeli operative during his tour of African countries in that year,” the group said in…
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Fast Forward 4 Arrested in Murder of Jewish Lawyer Dustin Friedland at New Jersey Mall
Four young men have reportedly been arrested in the senseless carjack killing of Jewish lawyer Dustin Friedland, who was shot in the parking lot of an upscale New Jersey mall in front of his horrified wife last weekend. Friedland, a beloved husband from Hoboken, had just finished loading holiday gifts into his silver 2012 Range…
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