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Fast Forward Prosecutor Quits Over Jewish ‘Hooker’ Case
A top Brooklyn prosecutor has reportedly resigned amid questions over her handling of a racially charged Crown Heights prostitution case. Lauren Hersh, the head of the district attorney’s sex trafficking unit, handled the probe that led to two black men being charged with raping an Orthodox Jewish girl and pimping her out starting when she…
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News Clerk Lured Etan Patz With Cold Soda
Police in New York say they have man in custody who has implicated himself in the 1979 disappearance of Etan Patz, the Jewish boy snatched off the streets of his lower Manhattan neighborhood. The suspect is Pedro Hernandez, 51, a former bodega clerk from Patz’s SoHo neighborhood, the Daily News reported. He now lives in…
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Fast Forward IAEA Chief: Deal Reached To Inspect Iran’s Nukes
The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Yukiya Amano, said Tuesday that he had reached a deal with Iran to allow inspectors to further investigate the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program. Amano, who had been in Tehran meeting with Iranian officials, said that the agreement would be signed “quite soon,” according to wire reports. Under…
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The Schmooze Out and About
The New Republic has hired back Franklin Foer as editor. Crown Heights gets a Hasidic art gallery. Could Boris Gelfand become the first Israeli world chess champion? Zackary Sholem Berger explores the Hasidic literary underground. White-collar criminal Andrew G. Bodnar wasn’t just ordered to write a book as part of his sentence, he also considered…
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Fast Forward Accused Rabbi’s Supporters Clash With Protesters
Two ultra-Orthodox Jews were reportedly arrested after a confrontation between supporters of a Brooklyn rabbi accused of sex abuse and protesters. The Daily News reported that scores of demonstrators faced off against a much larger crowd of supporters of Rabbi Nechemya Weberman, who is accused of abusing a teenage girl, in Williamsburg. Police were called…
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The Schmooze Out and About
Sacha Baron Cohen is being criticized for presenting negative stereotypes of Arabs in “The Dictator.” Can’t say this one was hard to see coming. Aaron Sorkin has signed on to write the script for a Steve Jobs biopic. Aharon Appelfeld’s “Blooms of Darkness” has won the British Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Read our review of…
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Fast Forward Internal Probe Clears Brooklyn College Official
An internal investigation on Tuesday cleared Brooklyn College’s provost of allegations that he discriminated against four observant Jewish professors. The report concluded that Provost William Tramontano did not act improperly in denying promotions to the three Orthodox women and one man. “Each of the cases involved a decision based on a good faith application of…
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The Schmooze Out and About
Jordan has freed the publisher of an online newspaper charged with propagating “anti-regime sentiment.” Actor Elliott Gould has become the new face of Aish HaTorah. Watch Mandy Patinkin speaking at a Peace Now conference in Jerusalem. Read an excerpt from Isaac Bashevis Singer and Maurice Sendak’s “Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories.” Seth Lipsky defends…
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