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 Yeshiva Worker Nearly Crushed By 2,500-Pound Torah Safe
(JTA) — A haredi Orthodox worker at a yeshiva in Borough Park was nearly crushed by a 2,500-pound steel safe installed to protect Torah scrolls. The worker at the Rabbinical College Yeshiva of Machzikai Hadas in Borough Park had just finished installing and cleaning the 8-foot-long, 3-foot-deep safe on Monday morning when it toppled over,…
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News Housing War Pits Ultra-Orthodox Against Latinos In ‘Last Corner’ Of Booming Brooklyn
In the all-purpose room of the Swinging Sixties Senior Center, in Williamsburg, members of Brooklyn’s Community Board 1 met in mid-June to begin deciding the fate of two empty lots. Would the board vote to rezone the lots so that they could become the site of a massive, high-end housing development, or would the lots…
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Fast Forward Does Heroin Overdose Signal Bigger Problem For Brooklyn Ultra-Orthodox?
The public health crisis of rampant opioid abuse has reached the insular ultra-Orthodox community in Brooklyn. Malky Klein, a 20-year-old ultra-Orthodox woman from Borough Park, died of an overdose last month, the New York Post reported. Jewish volunteer ambulances were called to the Klein home on June 24th after Klein’s mother found her unconscious in…
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Fast Forward A Crown Heights Pizza Joint Loses Its Kosher Certification
Though Basil, a pizza joint in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, may have won the battle, it may yet lose the “pizza war.” The restaurant recently had its kosher certification — or hechsher — revoked by OK Kosher, a New York-based kashrut agency. (The restaurant remains open to the public.) Until OK Kosher’s “Kashrus Alert,” Basil was…
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Fast Forward Suspect In Jewish Art Bus Arson Caught On Video
The police have released surveillance footage apparently showing a suspect wanted for torching a Jewish art bus last weekend in Brooklyn. In the 30-second clip, uploaded on Twitter last night, the suspect walks down the street in a baseball cap while talking on his cell phone. The NYPD just released surveillance video of the suspect…
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Fast Forward Police Probe Torching Of Jewish Art Bus As Possible Hate Crime
Police have determined that the fire that ripped through a colorful converted school bus in Crown Heights over the weekend was an act of arson — and are investigating it as a hate crime. “It has been determined that the fire was intentionally set,” a police statement read, calling the vehicle a “Jewish bus” decorated…
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Fast Forward Artist’s Iconic ‘Mitzvah Bus’ Burns In Crown Heights
A colorful converted school bus used by a Brooklyn artist as both a studio and workplace burnt to the ground late Sunday night. Lev Scheiber, the owner, said he was shocked to find his elaborately-decorated vehicle destroyed this morning. “I went to the bus today and it was completely destroyed. My initial reaction was it…
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Food Katz’s Deli Opens In Brooklyn — Or Does It?
“It’s not Katz’s; you can’t recreate it — and I’m not going to try.” That’s Jake Dell, the owner of Katz’s, the deli icon that’s been slicing pastrami on the Lower East Side of Manhattan since 1888. But Dell is standing near a glowing red and white sign that, in the deli’s signature font, spells…
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