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Melania Trump’s Diamond Merchant Dumping Mementoes of Troubled Adopted Son
After his adopted son was accused of helping cover up a grisly murder, diamond merchant to the stars Jeffrey Rackover is washing his hands clean of James Rackover. Jeffrey Rackover, who counts Melania Trump and Jennifer Lopez among his clients, was said to be throwing out James Rackover’s clothing and shredding his photos of the…
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Meet David Friedman, Bankruptcy Lawyer Turned Possible Israel Ambassador
President-elect Donald Trump chose David Friedman to be his ambassador to Israel on Thursday. He’s a unique choice for the role, breaking with a long held policy consensus in denouncing the two state solution and backing settlements. Here are five facts about him. 1. New Yorker Friedman grew up in Woodmere, New York as the…
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Standing With Muslims: Chicago Jews Grapple With Challenge on Eve of Trump Era
Amid the rising fears that minorities harbor about the coming Trump era, Jewish leaders here are fiercely debating: What is to be done? Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s personal appeal to Trump in a December 7 meeting to preserve the Delayed Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and give up his plans for large-scale deportations of immigrants…
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More Swastikas Found on Manhattan’s Upper West Side
The swastika sighted this week on 104th Street and Broadway in Manhattan was one of several hateful scrawlings in the neighborhood, according to local reports. A number of buildings and phone booths between 104th and 105th Streets on Broadway were tagged with swastikas, “KKK” and “Nazi,” DNAInfo reported. All the graffiti appeared to be done…
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What Does Developer’s Arrest Mean for the Future of Hasidic Bloomingburg?
Two weeks ago, it seemed like the Satmar Hasidim had won the fight for Bloomingburg. The tiny village 80 miles north of New York City had been the site of a raging battle between an Orthodox developer named Shalom Lamm and a group of stubborn locals for four years over Lamm’s plans to build homes…
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BREAKING: Shalom Lamm Charged in Bloomingburg Cash-for-Voters Scam
Federal prosecutors have charged Orthodox developer Shalom Lamm and two of his colleagues with conspiring to corrupt local elections in the upstate New York village of Bloomingburg by registering non-residents to vote there. This story is no longer being updated. Click here for the latest on the Bloomingburg indictments. According to an indictment filed in…
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BREAKING: FBI Arrests Bloomingburg Developer Shalom Lamm
Federal agents this morning arrested Shalom Lamm, the developer behind a controversial project to build hundreds of homes for Hasidic Jews in an upstate New York village. Update: Lamm has been indicted in cash-for-voters scam. This story is no longer being updated. Click here for the latest. Allan Ripp, a spokesperson for Lamm’s attorney, confirmed…
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In Montana, Activists and a Rabbi Resist the Resident White Supremacist
The small city of Whitefish in Montana’s Flathead Valley may seems like an odd battleground in the fight against white supremacy. The city is in a pristine valley, between the snow-capped mountains of Glacier National Park and the peaceful Flathead Lake. Every winter, the town of Whitefish fills with visitors who come to ski the…
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Protestors Slam Hanukkah Party at Trump Hotel — as Jewish Leaders Celebrate Inside
Under the banner of “Jewish Resistance,” several hundred activists protested Wednesday evening outside the Trump Hotel in Washington, where the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish American Organizations held its Hanukkah reception. Protesters marched from nearby Freedom Plaza along Pennsylvania Avenue and gathered outside the brand new hotel to express their dismay with the decision…
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How the Hasids Won the Battle of Bloomingburg — and Everyone Else Lost
When Mrs. F. and her husband decided to move away from Kiryas Joel, the upstate New York shtetl where they grew up, they went to their rebbe to ask for advice. The couple couldn’t move just anywhere. Both are members of the Satmar Hasidic group, and like all ultra-Orthodox Jews, they had special requirements: a…
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A Look Inside Bloomingburg’s Half-Built Satmar Yeshiva
A battle for the upstate New York village of Bloomingburg is ending, and the Satmar Hasidim won. While reporting on the progress of the Orthodox development in Bloomingburg, the Forward was given a tour of a new Satmar school for boys being built in an old warehouse in town. Signs in the school called it…
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