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Culture Chaos In Brooklyn: Pirate Radio Teaches Torah, Picks Fight With Classical Music Station
Pirate radio — broadcasting on FM, AM, or short-wave radio without a license — sounds kind of sexy. It certainly looked sexy in 2009’s wonderful “Pirate Radio” — see Bill Nighy, below, if you doubt me — and realistically, it probably used to be sexy. Those days, my friends, are done. What robbed pirate radio…
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News Vandals Spray Neo-Nazi Graffiti in Another Brooklyn Park
A worker at park between Brooklyn and Queens discovered swastikas and neo-Nazi graffiti scrawled on benches Thursday, the latest in a wave of hate crimes in New York City. The vandalism at the Newton Creek Nature Walk included swastikas, the slogans “Go Home Refugees,” “Heil Hitler,” “Now begins 1000 years of TRUMP!, and insults directed…
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News Why World’s Largest Menorah Can’t Be Called ‘World’s Largest Menorah’
(JTA) — Each year in Brooklyn, Chabad Rabbi Shimon Hecht ascends 33 and a half feet to light the tallest menorah in the world. But he’s not allowed to call it that anymore. By decree of a Chabad-Lubavitch rabbinical court, Hecht must cede the title of “World’s Largest Menorah” to another candelabra, this one also erected…
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Breaking News Brooklyn Mother Who Lost 7 Children in Shabbat Fire Hopes To Build Community Center
(JTA) — The Brooklyn mother who lost seven of her children in a house fire said in her first public remarks on the March 2015 tragedy that she wants to build a center for families on the site of her razed home. “What consoles me most is working on the positive — not lamenting on…
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The Schmooze WATCH: When 4,000 Rabbis Epically Fail To Stand Still for the #MannequinChallenge
4,000 rabbis attempted the #MannequinChallenge in Brooklyn, NY this week — to varying degrees of success. For those who’ve missed this whole viral phenomenon, the challenge involves a group of people standing frozen in one position while a camera pans across the scene. The rabbis, gathered together for the annual Chabad-Lubavitch conference, stood in a…
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Breaking News Hasidic Man Grabs Woman’s Crotch Outside Brooklyn Synagogue
A Brooklyn woman told police on Tuesday that she was grabbed in the genital area by a man while standing outside the entrance to her synagogue in the predominantly Hasidic Boro Park neighborhood, according to the local news site DNAInfo. The victim told authorities the incident occurred at 50th Street, and that the man appeared…
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Culture Even At 93, Father Still Knows Best
I often say that at my life’s inception lies a great irony or juxtaposition. My mother, although she was 21 years my father’s junior, died (after a brutal struggle with cancer) when she was just 9 days short of her 41st birthday. My father, who was 62 when she passed, will — G-d willing —…
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News Jewish Williamsburg Latest Target of Swastika Graffiti
The country’s post-election hate crime wave has now hit Williamsburg, where residents at the Independence Towers in the southern part of the Brooklyn neighborhood discovered swastikas and the slogans “KKK” and “Trump” graffitied on the stairwell Friday. “Such messages are extremely painful and when dismissed and ignored, it can escalate into physical attacks, God forbid,”…
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