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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Graffiti Left in Predominantly Jewish Brooklyn Building
The lobby of an apartment building in a Hasidic Jewish neighborhood of Brooklyn was vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti. A resident of a six-story building in Borough Park reported the graffiti, which said “F— Jews,” to the New York Police Department’s 66th Precinct on Sunday, JPUpdates reported. The precinct is investigating with the department’s Hate Crime…
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News Elite Chabad Yeshiva Says School Is Free of Abuse Despite Newsweek Expose
The Chabad-Lubavitch movement’s premier yeshiva is seeking to assure parents that no sexual or physical abuse is taking place within its walls following a detailed report on allegations of such abuse in the past. “I categorically assure you that there is absolutely no abuse taking place in Oholei Torah that we know of,” Rabbi Sholom…
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Fast Forward Homeless Man Charged in Crown Heights Stabbing of Orthodox Jew
Police arrested a 26-year-old homeless man they said had stabbed three people in New York over the past month, including an Orthodox Jew in Crown Heights. The suspect, identified as Keny Rochelin, was taken into custody late on Thursday after allegedly stabbing two men in two separate incidents in Prospect Park, the New York Police…
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Culture Have Seltzer, Will Travel
For three and a half years, Steve Levine has been bringing me seltzer. Every second Saturday, while I’m still in pajamas, Steve shows up at my apartment with six glass bottles in a steel-reinforced wooden crate that looks like it was nailed together in the 1920s. Most of the bottles are clear, though some are…
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Fast Forward ‘Son of Sal’ Gets 75 Years for Killing Brooklyn Jewish Shopkeepers
A New York clothing salesman known as the “Son of Sal” serial killer was sentenced on Friday for the 2012 shooting deaths of three shopkeepers in Brooklyn, prosecutors said. Salvatore Perrone, 67, of Staten Island, was sentenced by Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Alan Marrus to the maximum of 75 years to life in prison for…
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Fast Forward CUNY Launches Probe of ‘Zionist Pigs’ Anti-Semitism at Brooklyn College
After last month’s anti-Zionist incident at Brooklyn College, the City University of New York tasked its chancellor with studying complaints of anti-Semitism at several of its campuses. In addition to putting CUNY Chancellor James Milliken in charge of the probe, the university is establishing a task force to foster a more understanding and respectful environment,…
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Fast Forward Pro-Palestinian Activists Demonstrate Against Brooklyn Non-Profit That Backs Settlers
A group of 30 students and pro-Palestinian activists protested Friday to demand the end of tax-exempt status for the Hebron Fund, a Brooklyn not-for-profit that supports Jewish settlers in the West Bank city. The demonstrators gathered outside the Midwood headquarters of the group that they say provide invaluable support for settlers who have destroyed the…
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Fast Forward Lawmaker Demands Punishment for ‘Zionists Off Campus’ Demonstrators
A Brooklyn assemblyman has called on Brooklyn College to discipline the 10 or so students who participated in a protest that interrupted a faculty meeting with anti-Israel statements. “The university needs to act on this and enforce disciplinary action on the students that participated,” state Assemblyman Dov Hikind, a Democrat, said in a statement Thursday….
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