This is the Forward’s coverage of Brooklyn, a borough of New York City home to a major population of Hasidic Jews.
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Fast Forward Brooklyn’s Park Slope Food Coop votes to boycott Israeli products
Ban passes by 67-31 majority of members voting, despite local leaders' condemnation
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Culture Proposal to ban Israeli products roils a Brooklyn members-only grocery
Park Slope Food Coop battle spills into politics and pulpits ahead of long-brewing boycott vote
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Culture The Jewish secret to affordable eyewear that isn’t so secret anymore
Up a flight of stairs in a Brooklyn rowhouse, Minzer's Optical serves the Orthodox and anyone else looking for a bargain
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News A government takeover could save a struggling Brooklyn hospital — while unsettling the Orthodox Jewish community it serves
NYC Health + Hospitals is poised to assume control of Maimonides Medical Center, over the objections of some in the Borough Park community that founded it
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Fast Forward Suspect in Brooklyn Chabad car-ramming incident faces federal charge
Prosecutors charge Dan Sohail with intentionally damaging religious property
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Culture Is there life after Lubavitch?
In his memoir 'Brooklyn Odyssey,' ex-Hasidic sociologist Schneur Zalman Newfield turns his gaze inward
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Yiddish World Menachem Daum was not your typical Orthodox Jewish filmmaker
In his films, the late director strove to find common ground between Jews and non-Jews, especially Catholic Poles.
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Culture A legendary graphic novelist gets the (bio)graphic novel treatment
Will Eisner, a titan of the graphic novel industry, has never received mainstream recognition. A new biography is hoping to fix that
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Opinion New York’s Israel Day parade was a shanda — but not because of Mamdani
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Opinion How can I live freely as a Jew in a world where strangers rip my mezuzah off my doorframe?
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News Floyd Mayweather showered cash on Jewish causes — and now he’s suing their ‘Robin Hood’ alleging $175 million got diverted
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Opinion Israeli and diaspora Jews live in different realities. The Israel Day parade proved it
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News In the race for Jerry Nadler’s seat, much talk on Israel but little disagreement
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Film & TV A Hasidic wedding entertainer tries to keep up with the times — if his ego will let him
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Yiddish חיים בארס נײַ בוך דרייט זיך אַרום אָפּאַטאָשוס נאָוועלע „אַ טאָג אין רעגענסבורג“Chaim Beer’s new book revolves around J. Opatoshu’s novella ‘A Day in Regensburg’
„לווייתן ברוח“ באַקענט דעם לייענער מיט באַקאַנטע ייִדישע פֿיגורן, ווי י. ל. פּרץ, ש. אַנ-סקי און חנא שמערוק
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Fast Forward The Jewish Brigade fought fascism in Italy. Now its flags spark protests.