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Attending the solidarity march in NYC? Here’s what you need to know
If you plan on attending Sunday’s “No Hate, No Fear” solidarity march in New York City here’s what you need to know. (Can’t attend the rally? The Forward will have a team of reporters and editors on the ground covering the event online, on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.) When and Where The march officially kicks…
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Guardian Angels patrol outside Shabbat services amid Brooklyn hate crime surge
The crowd outside 770 Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood on Saturday morning included all the regulars: Hasidic men in black robes tied at the waist, small girls in tights and Mary Janes, and women in wigs. Also hovering outside 770, as the worldwide headquarters of the Lubavitcher movement is known, were Benjamin Garcia,…
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The reason for this major New York rally is violence against Hasidic Jews. But will they go?
Several of the New York area’s biggest and most important Jewish organizations will hold a rally on Sunday in response to a recent epidemic of attacks on Hasidic Jews, including a machete attack at a Hanukkah party last weekend that left five people wounded, including one in a coma. The event is intended to express…
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In Atlanta, the anti-Semitic flier wasn’t real. The fear was.
On Monday, the Atlanta Jewish Times published an article about a flyer — featuring swastikas, a rat adorned with a Star of David and language denying the Holocaust — supposedly distributed in the city’s Orthodox neighborhood. On Tuesday, the story was debunked. And as Shabbat approaches, the community is left with a cautionary tale about…
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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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