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Fast Forward Belgian Model Spat At, Chased After Walking Naked Through Hasidic Williamsburg
(JTA) — A Belgian model was spit at and chased for walking completely naked through the largely Hasidic Brooklyn neighborhood of Williamsburg. Marisa Papen and her crew undertook the photo shoot on March 21, at the end of the Purim holiday, but posted a video of the chase on her website just last week. She…
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Fast Forward One Day. Four Cities. Four Swastikas.
Reports of four different cases of swastika vandalism were published in four different cities on Wednesday, the latest examples of anti-Semitic incidents that have affected the Jewish community this month, ranging from defacement of property to attempted arson. In New York City, police are investigating who drew a swastika on the front door of the…
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Fast Forward Teen Turns Himself In For Attack On Jewish Man In Brooklyn
(JTA) — A teenager has turned himself in for punching an identifiably Jewish man in the head in Brooklyn. It was one of two attacks on haredi Orthodox men in the largely haredi Williamsburg neighborhood in less than two weeks. Police are withholding the 16-year-old’s name because he is a minor. He turned himself in on…
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Fast Forward Victim Of Brooklyn Anti-Semitic Hate Crime Attack Shares His Story
The victim of an anti-Semitic hate crime in Brooklyn shared his story with CBS New York, detailing the day he was beaten by four men earlier this month. The 42-year-old, who is Jewish and declined to be named, said he was walking down the street in the Williamsburg neighborhood on May 4 when four men…
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Fast Forward Free Measles Vaccines Available In Brooklyn Orthodox Neighborhoods
(JTA) — In response to the measles crisis in the haredi Orthodox community, free measles vaccinations will be available in haredi Orthodox neighborhoods of New York City. The vaccinations will be available Sunday without an appointment or insurance required at Hazolah rescue service garages in the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Borough Park, Flatbush and Williamsburg. The…
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Fast Forward Man Assaulted, Called ‘F***ing Jew’ In Latest Brooklyn Anti-Semitic Attack
(JTA) — A Jewish man was attacked in an apparently anti-Semitic incident in New York over the weekend. The attack comes days after the New York Police Department reported that more than half of all hate crimes reported in 2018 and so far in 2019 were anti-Jewish. In the weekend incident, according to the New York…
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Fast Forward Detroit Rabbis Help Set Up Clinics To Vaccinate Thousands Against Measles
Health officials in Detroit have been working with local rabbis to vaccinate the Orthodox Jewish community after a man traveling from Brooklyn unknowingly infected 39 people with measles, The Washington Post reported. After the man tested positive for measles last month, with his strain of the disease matching that of New York City’s outbreak, health…
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Fast Forward Man Infected 39 People With Measles On Trip From New York To Michigan
A man unknowingly infected 39 people with measles when he traveled from an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn to Michigan to raise money for charity, The Washington Post reported. The man, referred to as “Michigan’s Patient Zero,” had stayed in private homes, attended synagogue and shopped in kosher markets, spreading the contagious respiratory virus as…
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