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Opinion Why Did John Kasich Bring Up Jesus Christ’s Blood in Orthodox Brooklyn?
(JTA) — If Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s visit to Hasidic Brooklyn this week had yielded only one amusing moment, Dayenu – it would have been enough. But, thank God, there were many in the Republican presidential candidate’s visit to a Jewish bookstore, shmura matzah bakery and Hasidic school in Borough Park on Tuesday. “It’s a…
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Fast Forward John Kasich Jokes With Brooklyn Orthodox That He Prefers Abraham to Moses
John Kasich bantered with haredi Orthodox Jews about which biblical figure was most significant and other lessons from the Jewish Bible. The Ohio governor and one of three Republicans left vying for the party’s presidential nomination toured a Jewish book store in Borough Park, a Brooklyn neighborhood, Tuesday, Jewish Insider reported. New York State’s primary…
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Fast Forward Watch Ted Cruz Make Matzo With Kids in Brooklyn
Ahead of the presidential primaries in New York, Ted Cruz helped Jewish children make matzo in Brooklyn. At the Chabad-run Model Matzo Bakery in Brighton Beach Thursday evening, the Texas senator and Republican presidential hopeful led some 15 children in making the unleavened Passover bread, singing “roll, roll, roll the matzah dough.” WATCH: @TedCruz makes…
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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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