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 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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Fast Forward Brooklyn College Students Disrupt Faculty Meeting — Demand ‘Zionists Off Campus’
Approximately 10 Brooklyn College students who interrupted a faculty meeting called for “Zionists off campus” among its list of demands. A faculty member at the Tuesday afternoon meeting told JTA that along with the demand on Zionists, the students called one faculty member a “Zionist pig.” The educator who spoke to JTA wished to remain…
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Fast Forward ‘Son of Sal’ Convicted in Murders of 2 Brooklyn Jewish Shopkeepers
A New York clothing salesman known as the “Son of Sal” serial killer was convicted on Wednesday of three counts of second-degree murder in the 2012 shooting deaths of three shopkeepers in Brooklyn, including two Jews. Salvatore Perrone, 67, faces a maximum prison sentence of 75 years to life for the killings of Mohamed Gebeli,…
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