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Fast Forward NYC Councilman Cries Anti-Semitism In Affordable Housing Fight
The crisis over the Broadway Triangle continued this week, with opposing sides exchanging barbs ahead of a major zoning vote. A group of activists called for Councilman David Greenfield, who supports a major development in the Triangle, to recuse himself from the vote in a letter sent this week. They cite his close ties to…
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Community What ‘One Of Us’ Gets Wrong About My Hasidic Community
You don’t have to be one of us to be touched by “One of Us,” the recently released Netflix documentary that features the stories of three ex-Hasidim. The film captures their most intimate and personal moments as the subjects navigate their way in a confusing and foreign world. The shots are masterful, and the stories…
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Fast Forward Woman Tried To Snatch Baby From Chabad Headquarters
The Chabad Lubavitch Hasidic community in Brooklyn is in shock after a woman attempted to steal an unattended baby from the group’s headquarters on Wednesday, TV station WABC reported. The 26-year-old mother of the 18-month-old toddler reportedly left her child out of eyesight for only a moment when the would-be kidnapper picked the baby up…
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Fast Forward Tensions Between Hasids And Latinos Boil Over As Vote Nears On Controversial Brooklyn Project
For nearly 30 years, three ethnic groups with growing housing needs — Hasidic Jews, Latinos and African-Americans — have been eying the same few vacant lots in Brooklyn as a location for a possible housing development. At a City Council hearing on Tuesday to discuss a massive residential project proposed on those grounds, tensions boiled…
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Fast Forward Kushner Co. Is Really Trying To Unload This Brooklyn Brownstone
Kushner Companies is lowering its expectations – and its price – on a ultra-luxury townhouse in Brooklyn Heights that it’s hoping to flip a seven-figure profit. The property, a 20-foot-wide brownstone with 7,000 square feet of living space, had been on the market for $11.25 million until a recent change in brokers – with the…
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Fast Forward Brooklyn Kosher Bakery Hit With Anti-Semitic Flyer
(JTA) — An anti-Semitic flyer that threatens Jews sent to a kosher bakery in Brooklyn is under investigation by police. The notice sent to the Weiss Bakery in the haredi Orthodox neighborhood of Boro Park this week read: “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!! JUDEN RAUS (jews out). N***|**S AND F***|**S MUST BURN IN HELL. CHRISTIAN IDENTITY…
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Fast Forward Brooklyn Kosher Bakery Gets Nazi Propaganda In Mail
Weiss Kosher Bakery in Brooklyn was hit with anti-Semitic messages on Monday, after mail was delivered to the Borough Park cake and cookie shop that included a Nazi swastika and other Third Reich slogans. “Make America Great Again” read the typed-out message, delivered via mail. “Juden Raus. Negroes and faggots must burn in hell. Christian…
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Fast Forward Jewish Woman Helps Eritrean Refugees Get Settled In Brooklyn
A Jewish woman and her rabbi husband are helping two Eritrean refugees get settled in New York City – after the mother and daughter arrived in the United States earlier this month. “I got a call and they said, ‘Your friend Saba has been approved and would you consider being her U.S. sponsor,’” Mara Getz…
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