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 Jewish Leaders Insist Toppled Brooklyn Headstones Were Vandalized — Police Eye Neglect
(JTA) — Jewish leaders in New York are disputing the New York Police Department’s finding that 42 headstones toppled in a Brooklyn cemetery are the result of neglect. The headstones reported toppled on Saturday night at the largely Jewish Washington Cemetery originally were thought to have been the work of a vandal or vandals. But police…
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Fast Forward New York’s Iconic Katz’s Deli To Open Brooklyn Outpost
NEW YORK (JTA) — Katz’s Delicatessen, a staple on New York’s Lower East Side since 1888, confirmed the news reported by the Forward in October, that it is opening its first outpost — in downtown Brooklyn. The old-school deli, famous for the legendary “When Harry Met Sally” scene “I’ll have what she’s having,” will open…
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Fast Forward Man Who Attacked Brooklyn Jewish Y Chief At Nets Game Flees To Turkey
(JTA) — A New York man who was convicted of assaulting the head of the Brooklyn Jewish Y at a basketball game in 2014 has fled the country for Turkey. Shawn Schraeder, 27, of Queens, failed to show up Thursday for his first appointment with probation officials. A spokeswoman for the Department of Probation told…
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Fast Forward Syrian Jewish Businessman Snags Priciest Home in Brooklyn
Joseph Sitt, the founder of the global real estate firm Thor Equities, is the secretivebuyer of Brooklyn’s priciest residential property last year. The $11.6 million house is in Gravesend, the seat of the Syrian Jewish community that Sitt was born into and to which he still belongs. The house is 5,000 square feet, and its…
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Fast Forward Hasidic Matzoh Factory With No Sprinkler System Damaged In Brooklyn Blaze
A Brooklyn matzoh factory owned by a Satmar Hasidic congregation burned on Tuesday after the owners failed to install a sprinkler system, workers and the New York Fire Department said. The fire broke out in the wee hours of morning, in a wood-burning stove that was being used for the first time. Operated by the…
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Fast Forward Protesters Chant ‘Resist or Resign’ Outside Schumer’s Brooklyn Home
Protesters gathered on Monday night in front of the Brooklyn home of Senator Chuck Schumer, calling on the Senate Minority Leader to thwart President Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks. Slogans included “Resist or resign,” “Chuck! Chuck! Don’t sell us out! We need a fighter to knock Trump out!” and “No hate! No fear! Refugees are welcome…
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Fast Forward Brooklyn Driver Threatens To Shoot Jewish School Crossing Guard and Student
(JTA) — A driver threatened to shoot a crossing guard and a child outside a Jewish day school in Crown Heights, New York. The school crossing guard, 55, had asked the driver to move his car, which was blocking the sidewalk outside the Beth Rivkah Elementary School. The driver then asked the guard: “Why are…
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News Brooklyn Menorah Displays Vandalized in Anti-Semitic Hate Crime
Four days into Hanukkah, Brooklyn Rabbi Mendy Hecht discovered two public menorah displays vandalized on Tuesday morning, in what the New York Police Department and Parks Department are investigating as an anti-Semitic hate crime. “Taken out of its place, torn apart, broken. … That’s something more than I’ve ever experienced,” the Chabad rabbi told DNAInfo,…
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