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Luxe Condo Atop East Village Synagogue Priced at Cool $4M
Ever dream about living in a synagogue? Well, you can get pretty close now that a historic lower East Side tenament synagogue has converted its top floors into luxury aeries. All you need is about $4 million to make it happen. Developer East River Partners just finished several luxury apartments housed on the upper floors…
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Rabbi Ari Berman Is Top Candidate for Yeshiva U. President
Rabbi Ari Berman has emerged as the search committee’s top candidate to be the next president of Yeshiva University, sources familiar with the process told JTA. A product of both Y.U.’s college and its affiliated rabbinical seminary, Berman served for 14 years as a rabbi at The Jewish Center, a prominent modern Orthodox congregation on…
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Donald Trump Sides With Benjamin Netanyahu in West Bank ‘Ethnic Cleansing’ Flap
Donald Trump’s adviser on U.S.-Israeli relations told Haaretz Sunday that the Obama administration “should be ashamed of their misguided reaction” to remarks by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In a Facebook video published over the weekend, Netanyahu said that support for the removal of Israeli settlements in the West Bank, as part of a two-state peace…
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CUNY ‘Anti-Semitism’ Investigation Finds Scant Evidence of Wrongdoing by Pro-Palestinian Activists
Lawyers hired by the City University of New York to investigate alleged instances of anti-Semitism by campus pro-Palestinian activists have found that most of the activists’ conduct was protected under the First Amendment. The lawyers’ report comes six months after a letter by the Zionist Organization of America alleged that local CUNY chapters of the…
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WATCH: Dozens of New York Protestors Tossed During Tumultuous BDS Hearing
Protests erupted during a New York City Council hearing on an anti-BDS bill — so much so that City Councilwoman Helen Rosenthal called for the crowd to take a “deep yoga breath.” Dozens of people were forced out of the hearing on a resolution to condemn “all efforts to delegitimize the state of Israel and…
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A Neo-Nazi is Driving a Swastika and ‘Jew Lies Matter’ Sign Down the Highway
A well-known neo-Nazi activist in Oregon is taking his message on the road — literally. Jimmy Marr, who the Anti-Defamation League calls an anti-Semitic white supremacist activist, recently posted online pictures of his latest efforts — a truck emblazoned with signs reading “Jew Lies Matter,” accompanied by a swastika. The slogan is an anti-Semitic twist…
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9/11 Conspiracy Theorist Blames Terror Attack on ‘Zionist War Agenda’ in Brooklyn Speech
At a trendy community space in Brooklyn, a controversial 9/11 conspiracy theorist spoke Wednesday to a group of around two dozen listeners about the “Zionist war agenda” that he says was behind the attack 15 years ago that killed 3,000. The crowd filed past a sleek bar serving drinks, some carrying Palestinian flags and flyers…
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Hasids Busted for Plan to Murder Husband Who Wouldn’t Divorce Wife
Federal prosecutors announced the arrest Wednesday evening of two members of the Satmar Hasidic group accused of planning to kidnap and murder a man who had refused to grant his wife a religious divorce. Shimen Liebowitz, 25, and Aharon Goldberg, 55, planned to pay $55,000 to a private investigator to arrange the kidnapping, according to…
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9/11 Anniversary Sparks New Wave of Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories
Brooklyn Commons is a neighborhood gathering space. It says its purpose is “movement building,” but the organization dedicated to fostering connection found itself attacked by its own allies days before the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Groups affiliated with the Commons, including Jewish organizations, wanted the space to cancel a scheduled talk by Christopher…
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LISTEN: 911 Tapes of ‘Jewish Guys Beating Up a Black Kid’
Prosecutors played dramatic recordings of 911 calls at the criminal trial of Mayer Herscovic, the 24-year-old Hasidic man who stands accused of participating in the December 2013 beating of Brooklyn man Taj Patterson. The recordings of passerby desperate to help Patterson appear to describe a mob attack by Jewish men on the young black man….
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Hasidic Rabbi’s Granddaughter Dies of Reported Overdose After Leaving Community
The granddaughter of one of Brooklyn’s most influential Hasidic rebbes, or rabbis, died of a reported drug overdose early this week, according to an Israeli newspaper, sending the tight-knit ultra-Orthodox community into mourning and raising alarms among advocates who warn of a crisis among young people on its margins. Feige Greenwald’s death, first reported in…
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