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Fast Forward Jewish Man Beaten, Choked In Crown Heights While Walking Home From Synagogue
(JTA) — An identifiably Jewish man was beaten and choked while walking home from Shabbat services in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn. It is the second such attack in two weeks. The Jewish man was walking home from prayer services at about 1:30 on Saturday afternoon. He told the CrownHights.info news website that he…
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Fast Forward Brooklyn Synagogue Pulls Cash From Chase In Climate Change Protest
NEW YORK (JTA) — Congregation Kolot Chayeinu in Brooklyn’s Park Slope neighborhood is removing its savings from JPMorgan Chase, making it the first U.S. synagogue to publicly divest from a bank or other corporation “to explicitly oppose the funding of fossil fuel and other related projects dangerous to the world in which we live,” according…
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Fast Forward Simcha Felder Challenger Says Primary Race Will Test Orthodox Power In Brooklyn
The community activist mounting a challenge to State Senator Simcha Felder, a controversial legislator who is the one man standing between the Democrats and total control of Albany, said in an interview that the upcoming primary contest will test the power of Orthodox voters in Brooklyn. “The majority of the district is not Orthodox Jewish,”…
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Culture A Holocaust Museum Tells The Untellable Story — Through Orthodox Eyes
NEW YORK (JTA) — Like Holocaust museums the world over, the Amud Aish Memorial Museum in Brooklyn focuses on European Jewish communities that thrived before the Nazis came to power, the killing machine that led to millions of deaths, and the resilience of survivors both during the war and in rebuilding their Jewish lives in…
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Fast Forward Outrage In Brooklyn After Car Kills Two Kids At Dangerous Corner
Two young children were killed after a car struck them while they were crossing the street in Brooklyn on Monday afternoon, leading transit advocates to call for safer streets in a protest outside a nearby YMCA where Mayor Bill de Blasio frequently works out. Four-year-old Abigail Blumstein and 1-year-old Joshua Lew were with their mothers…
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Fast Forward Brooklyn Neighbors Rally Against Hasidic Matzo Factory
(JTA) — The residents of a Brooklyn neighborhood demonstrated against the smoke coming from a local matzah factory. Dozens of members of the South 5th Street Block Association in Williamsburg protested Sunday against the Congregation Satmar’s factory. The residents told WPIX-TV that the factory spews what they described as toxic coal smoke, which is so bad…
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Fast Forward Parkland School Shooting Survivors Travel To NYC For Chabad Youth Summit
Three students who survived the shooting earlier this month at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida traveled to New York City over the weekend to take part in Chabad’s annual youth festival, the New York Post reported. The students were part of roughly 2,500 teenagers who attended Chabad’s CTeen meeting, held in Brooklyn. The…
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Fast Forward Swastikas Carved Into Car Windows In Ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn Neighborhood
Police are investigating two swastikas carved into the passenger side windows of two cars in a heavily Hasidic neighborhood of Brooklyn, ABC7 reported. A Lexus and a Ford were found with damage late Wednesday night on a quiet street in Borough Park. The swastikas are being investigated as a possible bias crime. Contact Ari Feldman…
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