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Fast Forward Psychology Professor Beaten To Death In Brooklyn Home Invasion
A professor of psychology was murdered in a home invasion in Brooklyn on Monday night, the New York Post reported. Jeremy Safran, 66, was allegedly attacked at about 6 p.m. in his home in the leafy Prospect Park South neighborhood. Safran was reportedly found by investigators laying on the floor with trauma to his head…
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Fast Forward Brooklyn Driver Who Killed Two Kids Faces Manslaughter
The driver in a Brooklyn crash that killed a 1-year-old and a 4-year-old — including the daughter of Tony award-winning Broadway actress Ruthie Ann Miles — was indicted on several charges, ABC News reported. Dorothy Bruns, 44, reportedly faces 10 charges for prompting the March 5 tragedy, including second-degree manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, reckless endangerment…
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Fast Forward Chabad Yeshiva Student Kicked And Punched In Crown Heights
(JTA) — For the third time in three weeks, a person affiliated with the Chabad-Lubavitch movement was assaulted in Crown Heights. The victim, a 22-year-old yeshiva student, was walking home from the Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights when he was attacked at around midnight on Tuesday night. The Crown Heights Info…
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Fast Forward Arrest Made In Crown Heights Attack On Orthodox Jewish Man
(JTA) — Police arrested a man accused of attacking an identifiably Jewish man who was walking home from Shabbat services in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn. James Vincent, 40, was arrested on Friday morning after he appeared in Brooklyn Criminal Court on an unrelated case, the New York Daily News reported. He was charged…
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Fast Forward Dov Hikind Retiring After Controversial 36 Years As New York Lawmaker
New York Assemblyman Dov Hikind announced Wednesday that he would retire after a controversial 36 years in office, Yiddish Nayes reported. Hikind, an outspoken supporter of Israel, began serving in the Assembly in 1983. His district now covers the heavily-Orthodox Brooklyn neighborhood of Borough Park. Although a Democrat, Hikind was known for frequently switching sides…
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Fast Forward Rogue Senator Simcha Felder Keeps His Hold Over New York’s Legislature
Rogue Brooklyn Senator Simcha Felder and the Republican Party have kept their hold on the New York state legislature even though Democrats won special elections on Tuesday. The Democrats are trying to take control of the state legislature and the Bronx and Westchester races they won might have made the difference, but then Felder, a…
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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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