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Fast Forward Brooklyn Orthodox Jews Assaulted, Chased In Series Of Nighttime Attacks
(JTA) — Several identifiably Jewish men and boys were attacked in a string of assaults in the Borough Park community of Brooklyn on the same night. Three of the attacks late Friday night involved the same passenger car over five blocks, the Yeshiva World News reported. Surveillance cameras captured each incident, in which several men jump…
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Fast Forward Jewish Man Slapped And Called ‘Dirty Jew’ In Brooklyn
(JTA) — A Jewish man was slapped in the face and called a “dirty Jew” in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. The incident took place on Saturday afternoon. The Jewish man was attacked by a black male riding a bicycle. He crossed in front of the Jewish man on his bike, slapped…
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Fast Forward Backpack Set On Fire On Steps Of Brooklyn Synagogue Over Yom Kippur
Updated 1:45 p.m. (JTA) — A backpack was set alight and left on the steps of a Jewish center in Brooklyn on Yom Kippur. The burning backpack on the steps of the Park Slope Jewish Center was reported at 1 a.m. on Wednesday, the New York Post reported. The New York City Fire Department extinguished…
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Fast Forward Brooklyn Synagogue’s Windows Broken During Rosh Hashanah Prayers
NEW YORK (JTA) — The windows of a synagogue in Brooklyn were broken during Rosh Hashanah services. A video showing people throwing milk crates at the the Rivnitz synagogue in the Williamsburg neighborhood was circulated Wednesday on social media. Police said that the incident took place on Monday afternoon and they were searching for two…
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Fast Forward Haredi Man Attacked And Robbed In Brooklyn
An ultra-Orthodox man was robbed in Bedford-Stuyvesant on Tuesday night. The 24-year-old was walking home on Warsoff Place between Flushing and Park Avenues around 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday when he was chased by four men and attacked. Two of the suspects punched and kicked the man and told him to “give me everything you’ve got.”…
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Fast Forward Orthodox Jewish Man Hit In Face With Belt In Brooklyn Attack
(JTA) — A Jewish man was verbally and physically attacked in the Brooklyn, New York neighborhood of Flatbush. In the Saturday afternoon attack, two men who may have been drunk hit the Jewish man in the face with a belt and yelled “anti-Jewish racial slurs,” the Vosizneias Jewish news website reported. No age was given…
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Fast Forward Measles Outbreak In Brooklyn Orthodox Neighborhoods Declared Over
(JTA) — The measles outbreak concentrated in Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods in New York City is considered over. There have been no new infections over the last two incubation periods, signaling the end of the outbreak, city health officials said on Tuesday, The Associated Press reported. This means that an emergency order mandating vaccines will be…
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Fast Forward 2nd Assault This Week Against Orthodox Jewish Man In Crown Heights
(JTA) — For the second time in less than a week, an identifiably Jewish man has been attacked in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn with a stone. Police said a group of men threw a rock at a delivery driver, an Orthodox Jew, as he sat in his truck at the corner of Brooklyn…
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