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Culture Ain’t Nobody Here but Us Chickens
● Beautiful Yetta’s Hanukkah Kitten By Daniel Pinkwater, illustrated by Jill Pinkwater Feiwel and Friends, 32 pages, $17.99. Spared from the butchers’ knife, Yiddish-speaking Yetta makes her home in Brooklyn, trying to find a new family and do good where she can. A Holocaust survivor? Not exactly. Yetta is big white chicken with long eyelashes…
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Fast Forward Stabbed Chabad Rabbinic Student Improves
The condition of the Israeli rabbinical student who was stabbed at Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters in Brooklyn was upgraded. Levi Rosenblatt, 22, who was stabbed in the neck and head on Tuesday while praying, was upgraded from critical to serious but stable condition, though he remains confused about why he is in the hospital, the New York…
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News Will Chabad Rethink Open Door Policy After ‘I Will Kill Jews’ Attack?
(Haaretz) — The large synagogue at the heart of the international Lubavitch movement, called 770 after its address on Eastern Parkway, is busy around the clock, with people coming and going to pray and study religious texts. No one was prepared for what happened late Monday night, when a visibly agitated man walked in, reportedly yelled…
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Fast Forward Security Beefed Up After Fatal Police Shooting of ‘Kill the Jew’ Attacker at Chabad
(Reuters) — New York police fatally shot a man armed with a knife on Tuesday after he stabbed a rabbinical student from Israel in a Brooklyn synagogue, and authorities quickly stepped up security at Jewish houses of worship around the city, police said. The suspect, Calvin Peters, 49, who has a history of mental illness,…
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Fast Forward ‘I Will Kill Jews’ Attacker Shot Dead by Police at Chabad Headquarters in Brooklyn
A knife-wielding man shouting ‘I will kill the Jew’ was shot and killed by police after he allegedly stabbed an Israeli rabbinic student inside the world headquarters of Chabad in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Calvin Peters, 51, was shot in the stomach by police after a confrontation inside 770 Eastern Parkway, where he set upon a…
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Fast Forward 10-Year-Old Orthodox Girl Killed, Pregnant Mom Hurt Crossing Brooklyn Street
A 10-year-old Brooklyn girl was killed and her mother, nine months pregnant, was injured when they were hit by a minivan while crossing the street in the Borough Park neighborhood. The haredi Orthodox woman, Sarah Friedman, was taken to the hospital, where she delivered a healthy baby girl — her fifth child — on Tuesday…
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Fast Forward Teen Charged in ‘Dirty Jew’ Attack on Rabbi in Brooklyn Subway Station
Police have arrested a 15-year old boy for allegedly participating in an anti-Semitic attack at a Brooklyn subway station. The New York City Police Department suspects that the teenager, who was arrested on Tuesday night, was one of three assailants who beat an Orthodox Jewish man with his own umbrella on Monday afternoon and shouted…
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Fast Forward Brooklyn Senior Citizen Caught With 221 Kiddie Porn Videos
A Brooklyn senior citizen was hit with child pornography charges after police found 221 explicit videos on his computer, authorities said. Harvey Epstein, 68, was busted after a probe into so-called “peer-to-peer” sites, which pedophiles often use to trade and download child pornography, said Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson. “It is shocking that anyone ……
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