Molly Boigon is an investigative reporter at the Forward. Contact her at [email protected] or follow her on Twitter @MollyBoigon.
Molly Boigon
By Molly Boigon
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Fast Forward Interfaith Leaders, Public Officials Meet In Jersey City After Anti-Semitic Shooting
Leaders from different faith communities and branches of government met in Jersey City today to talk about the tragic anti-Semitic shooting at a kosher grocery store this week. Imams, priests, rabbis and elected officials all voiced their sympathies for the victims’ families and called for action, including bias education, to prevent more violence. About 35…
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News Kosher Supermarket Owner Mourns His Wife: ‘I Have To Do It All Without You’
On a Jersey City street, a crowd of men dressed in black hats and coats stand on the sidewalk and flood out into the street. A white bus stamped with “Chaverim of Rockaway” flanks the crowd. Speakers tower over them, projecting a tremulous voice. That voice belongs to Moishe Ferencz, the husband of Mindy Ferencz,…
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Fast Forward Scammers Create Fake GoFundMe Pages After Jersey City Anti-Semitic Shooting
Scam artists have set up a number of fake fundraising pages to solicit donations after the tragic shooting in Jersey City last night, the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey said in a Wednesday press conference. “They’re creating fake GoFundMe pages to try and solicit donations, purportedly for the families of these…
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Fast Forward Shooting’s Two Jewish Victims — A Scholar And A Beloved Leader — To Be Buried Thursday
The two Jewish victims of yesterday’s protracted shootout in Jersey City, N.J. will be buried tomorrow, according to a Hasidic community leader. “They understand the urgency of needing to bury them in a Jewish cemetery as soon as possible,” said Hasidic community leader Yankev Meir during an interview on the Yiddish-language radio/podcast app, Yiddish24 today….
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News Group Fighting Secular Education At Yeshivas Deploys Misinformation, Holocaust Imagery
Read this article in Yiddish here. Imagine a world where “evil informants” are “sharpening their teeth,” where they fight to take children and “drag them into the abyss.” Holy books are engulfed in flames. Scary men in suits burst into classrooms unannounced and steal toys. Children are taught profanity for hours each day. Large metal…
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Israel News Rabbis At Bergen-Belsen Used This Ledger To Help Holocaust Survivors Remarry
Update, 9:30 a.m.: The auction has been put on hold. A court in Tel Aviv put a hold on the sale after a lawsuit was filed by the Organization of Bergen-Belsen Survivors in Israel. Read more at this link. A ledger meant to free people from marriage to spouses who were missing and presumed dead…
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Fast Forward Israel Expels Human Rights Watch Director
The Israeli government expelled the Israel and Palestine director of Human Rights Watch on Monday, officials from the organization said, the first such deportation under a 2017 law targeting supporters of a boycott movement. The director, Omar Shakir, departed after the Israeli Supreme Court ruled in favor of a deportation order from last year that…
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News Trash Pickup On Shabbat: How NYC Sanitation Created A ‘Mountain of Garbage’ Outside Boro Park’s Yeshivas
Read this article in Yiddish here. On a drizzly autumn night in Boro Park, Brooklyn, scholars with peyos rush home from study, little boys play on bikes and scooters and a door opens to a hallway where two men stand in the curl of their cigarette smoke. All around them on their neighborhood streets, an…
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