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Fast Forward Orthodox Group Seeks To Keep Disabled Brooklyn Woman on Life Support
The head of an Orthodox Jewish organization that cares for people with special needs is suing to keep one of its patients on life support — over the objections of her brother. Samuel Kahn, the director of Hebrew Academy for Special Children (HASC), a New York organization that cares for people with special needs, is…
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Culture Neil Diamond Goes Back Home to Brooklyn
Who says you can’t go home again? Singer Neil Diamond returned to Brooklyn Monday for a surprise performance at the high school he attended in the 1950s. Hundreds of fans lined up outside Erasmus Hall High School in the Flatbush section hoping to snag free tickets to hear a rare intimate performance by the entertainer…
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News Why Rabbi Ysoscher Katz Left Satmars for Progressive Start-Up Synagogue
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. He grew up among the ultra-Orthodox Satmar Jews in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, in a childhood with rules so strict that playing Frisbee at summer camp was considered a radical move. Today he serves as the spiritual leader of a small, relatively young, progressive Orthodox synagogue…
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Food Home Delivery for the Holidays
Mile End’s Montreal Smoked Meat Sandwich Kit. Photograph courtesy of FoodyDirect. Back in March, the Forward reported that Houston deli extraordinaire Kenny & Ziggy’s had started shipping a Seder in a Box as part of its haimish offerings on specialty-food site FoodyDirect. Now, FoodyDirect’s Jewish quotient is getting upped again. Brooklyn’s own Mile End Deli…
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Fast Forward Arab Bank Never Financed Terrorism, Lawyer Says
A lawyer for Arab Bank, which is accused of providing financial services to Hamas, told a Brooklyn federal court that the bank never helped finance terrorism. Shand Stephens in closing arguments Thursday argued that none of the bank’s clients had been designated as terrorists by the United States during the relevant time period. “The bank…
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Opinion How Not To Write About Hasids Buying Weed
Cover of the memoir “Cannabis Chassidis” / Amazon Should the media highlight religious affiliation of criminal suspects when the affiliation has no bearing on the crime, and when those accused are not representatives of any religious group? This weekend the New York Post ran a story of three Hasidic men busted for attempting to buy…
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Food Junior’s Bucks a Trend to Maintain a Tradition
This summer wasn’t kind to New York restaurant lovers. In June, Wylie Dufresne announced that he’d be closing the doors of his pioneering modernist restaurant WD50. Soon after, Danny Meyer said that Union Square Café would be leaving its original location when its lease expired at the end of the year. Finally, some good news….
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The Schmooze DMV Will Revoke Brooklyn ‘HAMMAS’ License Plate
NY1 Someone in Brooklyn is driving around in a car with a “HAMMAS” license plate. The slightly misspelled nod to Hamas was spotted on black Dodge that was parked in Bay Ridge Wednesday and had a Palestinian flag spread across the windshield, NY1 reports. Even more disturbing however, is the message that the owner opted…
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Fast Forward 2 Jewish men stabbed in London, in attack British PM Keir Starmer calls ‘utterly appalling’
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Fast Forward Hasan Piker favors Hamas, is pushing Dems to be anti-Israel — and wants Jews not to worry about him
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Fast Forward US soldier charged for threatening to ‘kill every single Jew’ inside of a synagogue