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Can A Catholic Guy Save This ‘Hellhole’ Jewish Cemetery — (And Why Hasn’t Its Own Synagogue)?
Bayside Cemetery in Queens is “abandoned.” It is “desecrated.” It is “the cemetery that nobody wants.” Well, nobody but Anthony Pisciotta. Just about every Sunday, Pisciotta, a Catholic man from the Bronx, romps through the knee-high undergrowth to maintain the parts of the cemetery that get the most foot traffic. He paints, he whacks weeds,…
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The Jewish Gastroenterologist Who Worked As An Agent For An Arab Sheikdom
By day, Dr. Joseph Frager is a gastroenterologist with a conspicuous mustache who is frequently listed as one of New York’s top doctors. But when he’s not seeing patients, he’s a powerful political operator, one of the most prominent and well-connected lay leaders of the Orthodox Jewish community in New York. Frager is a major…
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Ex-Camper Accuses Female Orthodox Counselor Of ‘Traumatic’ Sex Abuse
When Leah Sokolovsky was 15, she spent many Friday nights sleeping over at the home of the 20-year-old assistant head counselor of her ultra-Orthodox summer camp. The two had not been particularly close at camp. But during the school year that followed, the counselor, an ultra-Orthodox woman named Gittie Sheinkopf, cultivated Sokolovsky. Sokolovsky says Sheinkopf…
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Slain Psychiatrist Who ‘Dealt With Worst’ Remembered For ‘Seeing The Best’ In World
At first, the killings seemed random. Dr. Steven Pitt, a nationally respected forensic psychiatrist, was shot outside his office in Scottsdale, Arizona. The next day, two people were shot outside a law firm across town. It wasn’t until a fourth body surfaced, and police received an anonymous tip, that it became clear the killings were…
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Is A Private Community In Suburban New York Targeting Hasidic Jews?
The first Hasidic couple to move to Highland Lake Estates alleges that on their first night in the new house, the head of the community’s homeowner’s association shined the headlights of his car into their home for twenty minutes. Other Hasidic families say they woke up to find their mailboxes vandalized or destroyed. Once, the…
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Jewish Candidate Could Save Democrats From Disastrous California ‘Jungle Primary’ Loss
Democrats received some potentially disaster-avoiding news when a recent poll showed Democratic candidate Mike Levin leading in the much-watched race to fill Rep. Darrell Issa’s Southern California seat. The state’s 49th district, which extends north from San Diego, could be key to Democrats taking back the House of Representatives –- Hillary Rodham Clinton carried it…
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Reform Rabbi Was Secretly Censured For Affair With Congregant
When a Reform rabbi resigned from his Durham, North Carolina synagogue recently, the synagogue’s lawyer said the problem was “sexual in nature.” Now the Forward has learned what those words meant. The rabbi had a yearlong, sexual relationship with a woman who regularly worshipped at the synagogue. The Reform movement’s rabbinical association had censured him…
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The Jewish Gossip Kings Who Dish Dirt — On Everyone Except Donald Trump
(JTA) — Harvey Levin runs the gossip industry giant TMZ. The Daily Beast reported this week that in 2016, just prior to the election, Levin did something unusual: Hearing that there was an incriminating video of Republican nominee Donald Trump in an elevator, he alerted Trump instead of his readers. David Pecker, the National Enquirer…
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Tamika Mallory Slams Founding Of Israel As ‘Human Rights Crime’
Women’s March co-leader Tamika Mallory called Israel a state that “takes the lives of people who were there first.” Speaking via video at an event hosted by the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Justice Delegation – the group of lawyers and civil rights activists, including Mallory, who traveled to the Holy Land last month…
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Ikar Is Building Something. Just Don’t Call It A Synagogue.
The Los Angeles congregation Ikar likes to break the unspoken rules of American Judaism. It does not call itself Conservative, Orthodox or Reform. It doesn’t even call itself a synagogue, because it has no permanent home. It holds services — known for their drum circles and packs of roaming children — in rented auditoriums and…
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Pompeo Promises Anti-Semitism Envoy Eventually, But Advocates Urge Quick Action
Advocacy groups welcomed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s promise to appoint a special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism, but continued to urge him to fill the vacancy as soon as possible. Pompeo was vague on a specific timeline, telling legislators he’d “move on” picking someone after Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) asked him in a…
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