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Monsey stabbing victim’s daughter calls for peace: “I’m begging you”
One of the victims stabbed during a Monsey Hanukkah celebration last weekend is unlikely to recover, according to statements by his family during a press conference Thursday. Josef Neumann, 72, is in a coma with a fractured skull, knife wounds through his neck and a shattered arm, said his youngest daughter, Nicky Cohen. She also…
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Victim of stabbing attack in Monsey rabbi’s home remains in ‘dire’ condition
(JTA) — A man wounded in the stabbing attack on a rabbi’s home in Monsey, New York remains unconscious and on a respirator. The doctors of Josef Neumann, 71, are not optimistic that he will regain consciousness and say if he does “miraculously” recover partially, that he is expected to have permanent brain damage that…
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Spurred By Anti-Semitic Violence, Orthodox Jews Consider Arming Themselves
After this month’s deadly anti-Semitic shooting in Jersey City, B., a Haredi resident of Brooklyn, got a Whatsapp message from a friend. “Time to get a gun,” the message read in part. So B. took a trip upstate and bought a firearm, and a week later, returned to learn how to aim and shoot. “It’s…
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Letter From Chicago: Toasting And Posting To Instagram At Hanukkah Pop-Up Bar
I’ve been to my fair share of Christmas-themed bars, which I enjoy just as much as the next Chicagoan. As a Jew, however, I’m maybe more able to take a step back and ask myself: Is this what Santa would have wanted? Could an elf kick back and relax here? How many Candy Cane martinis…
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Multiple People Stabbed At New York City Area Synagogue
At least five people were stabbed in a machete attack at a New York City suburb synagogue Saturday night. Read our updated report here. According to witnesses at the scene, the perpetrator came into the rabbi’s house in Monsey, N.Y. and started stabbing people. Witnesses say a person at the rabbi’s home took a small…
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Six Nights Of Hanukkah, Seven Anti-Semitic Incidents In New York City
A woman slapped three Orthodox women in the space of about thirty minutes in Brooklyn Thursday evening, according to one of them who posted on Facebook about it. “The sixth such incident since Chanukah began, and we haven’t even gotten past the 5th candle,” the woman, Dalia Shusterman, wrote in a public post suggesting the…
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A Sluggish Union Wakes Up And Wins Concessions From Chicago’s Jewish Federation
Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago reached a tentative agreement last week that obtained significant gains in salary and benefits for the union, which had languished for about a decade. After 12 years of raises that averaged 2.2%, a revitalized leadership pushed for salaries more in line with their peers…
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Orthodox Jews Raise $1.5 Million For Family That Owned Jersey City Grocery Store
In just over a week, a crowdfunding campaign for the family of Mindel Ferencz, who was shot and killed in the Jersey City kosher grocery shooting, raised over $1.5 million, primarily from Orthodox and Hasidic donors. The show of support has been remarkable even for the Hasidic world, in which the importance of charitable giving…
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Torah Scrolls Were Desecrated In L.A., But It Might Not Be A Hate Crime
Updated 3:30 p.m. Images of Torah scrolls yanked open, ripped apart, and strewn across the sanctuary at Nessah Synagogue in Beverly Hills last Shabbat has left a knot in the collective gut of the Los Angeles Jewish community and American Jewry more broadly, which is still reeling from a murderous attack at a Jersey City…
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Do The Orthodox Feel Adequately Supported By Other Jews After A Violent Attack?
Amid the mourning and sorrow in the aftermath of the attack on a kosher grocery store in Jersey City, some Jews felt something else: The sense that attacks on Orthodox Jews don’t garner as much sympathy from their non-Orthodox brethren. Few seem to care about the attacks on Jews in Brooklyn. Why? The Jews being…
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