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Opinion 6 Things Orthodox Girls Schools Should Do In The #MeToo Era
March first marks the start of Women’s History Month. That date also marks the yartzeit of Sarah Schenirer, pioneer of Bais Yaakov, the ultra-Orthodox girls’ school. In the words of former Bais Yaakov student, Alanis Morissette (kidding), isn’t it ironic? Schenirer is the OG Orthodox feminist. She was a blazing renegade who could stand with…
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Fast Forward Survivors Of Brooklyn Hanukkah House Fire Released From Hospital
(JTA) — The surviving members of a Brooklyn family whose house burned down in a fire started by a Hanukkah menorah were released from the hospital. Yossi Azan and two of his children — daughter Shalit, 16, and son Daniel, 15 — were released from a local hospital this week, the Yeshiva World News reported….
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Food Witness The Creation Of The World’s Biggest Bagel And Lox Sandwich
If bagels at your local deli seem oversized, wait until National Bagel & Lox Day. Brooklyn-based appetizing giant Acme Smoked Fish Corp. is teaming with Big Apple bagel mavens Zucker’s Bagels this Friday, February 9, to build “the largest bagel and lox sandwich ever recorded.” Acme will host an open-to-the-public event at its Brooklyn facility,…
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News Seeking Connection In A Strange Land, Young Russian Immigrants Find Opioids
Elga Khananyeva, 28, stole from her family to buy heroin. Vladimir, 32, started dealing drugs at age 14, two years after he arrived in the United States. Dmitry, 25, shot heroin five times a day before spending three years in rehabilitation. “I can’t get upset every time someone dies anymore,” Dmitry said. The words “opioid…
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Fast Forward Online Campaign Raises Over $550,000 For Survivors Of Brooklyn Hanukkah Fire
(JTA) — A crowdfunding campaign created to aid the surviving family members of a Hanukkah house fire in Brooklyn has raised over $550,000 in eight days. Aliza Azan, 39, her sons Moshe, 11 and Yitzah, 7, and a daughter, Henrietta, 3, died in an early morning house fire on Dec. 18. Police are looking into whether…
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Culture From Gorka To Carlebach: The Forward Staff’s Favorite Articles Of 2017
2017 has, collectively, been few people’s ideas of a fun year. Still, it’s welcomed a wealth of excellent journalism. While we’ve previously celebrated work from other outlets, the Forward’s staff has also chosen our own most exceptional work from this year — our 120th in business. My picks include Sam Kestenbaum’s deeply reported “How This…
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Fast Forward Thousands Attend Israel Funeral Of Mom and 3 Children Killed In Brooklyn Hanukkah House Fire
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Hundreds of mourners attended a funeral in Israel for a woman and her three children killed in a house fire in Brooklyn. The funeral was held in Holon near Tel Aviv, where the mother, Aliza Azan grew up. Moshe, 11; Yitzah, 7, and Henrietta, 3, also died in the early Monday morning blaze….
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Opinion Why So Many Brooklyn Orthodox Jews Are Dying In Tragic Fires
The flames were terrifying. The losses, unbearable. The similarities, deeply sobering. When seven children of the Sassoon family, ages 5 to 16, died together in an early morning March 2015 house fire, caused by a faulty Sabbath ritual hot plate, a neighbor, Yosi Azan, wrote in a Hebrew Facebook post that he knew the family….
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