Rebecca Dube
By Rebecca Dube
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News Hikind Retreating On Tough Tactics Against Molesters
Assemblyman Dov Hikind of Brooklyn, a leading voice in the fight to end child sexual abuse in Orthodox communities, is backing down from some of his previous claims and backing away from one of his most confrontational stands against an alleged pedophile. In an interview with the Forward, Hikind dramatically scaled down a previously reported…
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News Why is This Haggadah Different From Others?
Here’s a Passover riddle: When is a Haggadah not Jewish? Answer: When it’s got more Jesus than a matzo has holes. A Jewish anti-missionary group has succeeded in persuading Barnes & Noble booksellers to reclassify a Passover guide from a “messianic Jewish” publisher as Christian, rather than Jewish. The group is also pressuring Amazon.com and…
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News Old World Flavor
Walk through the unmarked black doors of a nondescript brick building in Brooklyn, and you stumble onto a time machine. Here, at one of the half-dozen or so shmura matzo factories remaining in New York, a bustling team of bakers keeps alive the art of making matzo the old-fashioned way. “This is the way it…
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Life For Madoff Victims, Tax Breaks and Osso Buco
The Department of Justice released Bernard Madoff’s mug shot this week, following his guilty plea to 11 charges related to his multi-billion-dollar Ponzi scheme. Now living at the Metropolitan Correction Center in Lower Manhattan, the disgraced financier wears a conservative blue-and-white striped shirt and, at least in the mug shot, a grim expression. “After scamming…
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Life Madoff: The Most Unpopular Prisoner
If Bernard Madoff thought that jail would at least provide a break from confronting angry mobs of people, he may be in for (another) rude awakening. Sure, the Ponzi scheme architect, who pleaded guilty Thursday morning to all 11 charges against him, will escape the paparazzi that swarmed his Upper East Side penthouse. But experts…
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News Sexual Abuse Survivors Join Debate Over Extending Claims
Jews who say they were sexually abused as children by their rabbis are seeking to tip the balance in favor of a long-stalled bill that would extend the statute of limitations for child sexual abuse in New York State — legislation that could have far-reaching impact on some Orthodox communities as they struggle with emerging…
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News Cleaning Toilets, and Other Victim Fantasies
What would be a fair punishment for Bernard Madoff? Life in prison is considered probable for Madoff, who pleaded guilty Thursday to 11 criminal charges. But that’s just for starters. How about toilet-cleaning duty in the slammer, a job as a Wal-Mart greeter or simply oblivion? Those are some suggestions from victims of Madoff’s Ponzi…
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News Citing Economy, New York’s Federation Slashes Jobs
The UJA-Federation of New York, the world’s largest local philanthropy, has fired 52 people, 11% of its total staff. Federation CEO John S. Ruskay confirmed the layoffs to the Forward on March 11, the same day employees were notified. He said laid-off workers would receive severance and other forms of support, and would leave their…
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