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Wealthy Orthodox Couples Charged in $1.3M Brooklyn Benefits Scam
Federal prosecutors charged three Brooklyn couples lying about their assets to qualify for a raft of government programs meant to aid poor people. The six men and women, all in their late thirties and early forties, were arrested in Williamsburg on September 27. News of their arrests spread fast on Orthodox social media channels. They…
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King David Hotel Boots Guests for Leaders at Shimon Peres Funeral
Booked a big suite at the King David this weekend? Unless you’re the president of a major world power, you better start making other plans. Managers at the historic Jerusalem hotel are booting guests from prime rooms to make space for more than 30 heads of state expected to attend the funeral of the Israeli…
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A JCC Sprouts in Harlem as Jews Head (Back) Uptown
There were once set-in-stone dividing lines between the Jewish Upper West Side and predominantly black Harlem. But no more, with this week’s announcement that a Jewish community center will open uptown this January, the product of a wave of gentrification in the fast-changing uptown neighborhood. As reported in The Jewish Week, the center will open…
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Babi Yar at 75—Looking Back, From the Pages of the Forverts
Nazi forces in the Soviet Union committed the Babi Yar massacre 75 years ago, over two days, on September 28 and 29. But like most of the world’s news media, the Forverts published news of the Babi Yar massacre only in 1943, when Kiev, the neighboring city, was liberated by the Red Army. A feature…
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‘Alt-Right’ Hears Just Enough Dog Whistles To Stick With Donald Trump
Donald Trump may have angered some in the so called “alt-right” with his debate jibe about a 400 pound hacker. But most extreme-right activists were looking for other other code-worded racially loaded messages from Trump — and analysts who track white supremacists and anti-Semitic activists say they may have heard just enough to keep them…
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Hasidic Swimming Pool Wars Rage in Brooklyn
Assemblyman Dov Hikind dove back into Brooklyn’s Hasidic swimming pool wars, sending a letter to the New York City Parks Department that demands it reverse a plan to limit women-only hours at the Metropolitan Recreation Center in Williamsburg. The city Parks Department granted the single-sex swimming hours as an accommodation to the area’s Hasidic women,…
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Meet Gina Zuckerman, the 90-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Who Beat Off a Mugger
Gina Zuckerman has always been a tough cookie. The 90-year-old Greenwich Village woman survived the Holocaust, worked in the testosterone-infused culture of Madison Avenue, and still lives alone and independently in her studio apartment. So a female mugger who tried to snatch Zuckerman’s purse got more than she could handle when the nonagenarian fought back…
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Shopping for Shofars: The Ultimate Buying Guide for Jews (and Evangelicals, Too)
As we prepare for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, shofars are blown in synagogues daily to mark the run-up to the High Holy Days. But what about yourself? Do you feel the need to toot your own horn? Look no further, we have compiled a list of the best shofars you can buy online –…
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Will This Invention Make the ‘Shabbos Goy’ Obsolete?
Observant Jews might soon be able to dispense with the “Shabbos goy,” the Gentile neighbor or friend who performs forbidden labor during the Sabbath, reports Orthodox news site “Vos Iz Neias” (Yiddish for “What is News?”). That’s because Morty Kohn, a Brooklyn electrician, has created a new light bulb that he says can effectively be…
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Babi Yar at 75: How Will Changing Ukraine Remember Infamous Nazi Atrocity?
We stand at the edge and watch a family play with a remote-controlled toy car by a playground that’s inside the ravine. A girl tosses a ball in the air as she walks past a monumental menorah and asks her grandmother, “What’s with the celebration?” as she takes note of the flowers and wreaths placed…
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Alt-Right Trolls Offended by Trump’s 400-Pound Hacker Joke
Donald Trump has a gift to alienate entire population swaths with a single one of his insults. Women, Mexicans, Muslims, you name it. But now you can add an unlikely group to this list: alt-right Twitter trolls. 4chan and 8chan, the “alt-right” message boards that originated the Star of David-meme that Trump then retweeted, were…
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