This is the Forward’s coverage of Brooklyn, a borough of New York City home to a major population of Hasidic Jews.
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Fast Forward Chabad Couple Does ‘Mitzvah Campaign’ Outside Home Of Subway Bomber
While law enforcement agents were searching the Brooklyn home of Akayed Ullah, the would-be suicide attacker who had detonated a pipe bomb in a Manhattan subway on Monday, a Chabad husband and wife took the unusual opportunity to launch a “mitzvah campaign” in the neighborhood. Rabbi Yisrolik Langsam, who heads a Chabad outpost in the…
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Fast Forward Emails Detail Hasidic Power Broker’s Direct Line To De Blasio’s Office
A new trove of emails shows how a Hasidic rabbi and power broker from Brooklyn received five-star treatment from New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio and his staff after hosting a fundraiser for them, the New York Post reported. Moishe Indig, a Brooklyn landlord and member of the Satmar Hasidic sect, had direct access…
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Fast Forward Hasidic Neighborhood In Brooklyn Has Lead Levels Three Times Worse Than Flint
A Hasidic neighborhood in Brooklyn — one that has New York City’s highest concentration of children — has lead poisoning levels three times worse than Flint, Michigan. Williamsburg has seen thousands of cases of lead poisoning since 2005, Reuters reported “When I saw the numbers I freaked out,” said Rabbi David Niederman, leader of the…
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Life I’m Orthodox, Broke And Proud
My wife and I are broke. Don’t worry, it’s always been that way. Ever since we decided to sell all our stuff and move to Israel, and then sell all our stuff there and move back, we’ve been broke. Not like, broke broke — please don’t misunderstand. We’re not hungry or homeless. We’re middle-class broke….
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Fast Forward Warring Brooklyn Candidates Agree On One Thing: No Yeshiva Reform
Amid a blistering City Council campaign in the Orthodox-dominated neighborhood of Boro Park, two warring candidates have found a rare point of agreement: Both dislike the advocates seeking to improve secular education at Hasidic Yeshivas. “I don’t want any outside group, I’m not going to give them airtime by mentioning their name, but they are…
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Fast Forward Burglars Steal $5K From Brooklyn Kosher Deli
NEW YORK (JTA) — The burglars who robbed a kosher deli in Brooklyn weren’t looking for brisket or roast beef. They left the food untouched but stole $5,000, after breaking in by way of the adjacent office of a Brooklyn state senator. “They certainly weren’t desperate for pastrami,” state Sen. Simcha Felder said on Sunday,…
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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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