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News Simcha Felder Is Kingmaker No More — Faces ‘Different World’ In Albany
In Tuesday evening’s New York state Senate elections, there were winners and there were losers. And there was Simcha. Democrats won the chamber. Republicans lost it. And Simcha Felder, who represents the Orthodox Brooklyn neighborhoods of Boro Park and Midwood, lost his status as the most powerful man in New York state politics. With Democrats…
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Fast Forward Teens’ Anti-Semitic Attacks In Brooklyn Caught On Video
(JTA) — The New York Police Department is circulating surveillance video of a group of preteens and teens that it says has carried out a series of anti-Semitic attacks in Brooklyn. The incidents include a metal pipe thrown through the window of a synagogue in the Hasidic neighborhood of Williamsburg on Nov. 3 during afternoon…
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Fast Forward Voting Rally Cancelled After ‘Kill All Jews’ Drawn Inside Brooklyn Synagogue
A political event at a historic Brooklyn synagogue was cancelled Thursday after “Kill all Jews” was found scrawled inside, the New York Post reported. “Hitler,” “Jews better be ready” and “Die Jew rats, we are here!” were among the hateful messages scribbled in black marker at Union Temple in Prospect Heights, the New York Daily…
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News Brooklyn Moms Bond. 6 Years Later, A New Jewish Congregation Is Born.
Even in Brooklyn, there are wandering Jews. That’s how Marcella Kanfer Rolnick and Amy Abrams saw themselves in 2012. Both parents of students at the same Jewish school, the two women bonded over their shared longing for a spiritual home. “I felt like here I was telling my kids, ‘Go to a Jewish school, yes…
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Fast Forward Hasidic Man Convicted of Beating Black Student Gets Verdict Tossed
A New York appeals court has overturned the conviction of a Hasidic man who was found guilty for his role in the beating of a black man in 2013, The New York Times reported. Five Orthodox men were accused of beating and blinding Taj Patterson, a black fashion student in Brooklyn, on Dec. 1, 2013….
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Fast Forward White Supremacist Allegation Leads To Death Threats For Brooklyn Cafe Owner
A new Brooklyn cafe temporarily closed following an online campaign that accused the owner of being a white supremacist, Gothamist reported. Guy Sands, the owner of Sands in the East Williamsburg neighborhood, was listed as a white supremacist in a tweet that was retweeted and liked about 3,000 times, and investigated by Gothamist. It accused…
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Fast Forward Sign Here If You Want A Brooklyn Building Named After RBG
There might soon be a building named after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams announced Thursday that he is lobbying to rename the Brooklyn Municipal Building after Ginsburg, in honor of her 25th anniversary serving on the Supreme Court, Gothamist reported. On the online petition, which will be sent to New York…
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Fast Forward Julia Salazar Accuses Netanyahu Spokesman Of Sex Assault
Julia Salazar, the controversial candidate for a New York state senate seat in Brooklyn, is claiming she was sexually assaulted in 2013 by a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Salazar, who has been dogged by controversy over a number of issues, says she is speaking out because news reports were poised to name…
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