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Opinion Judging Menachem Stark’s Jewish Life — Not Just His Death
A man was murdered last week. By many news accounts, he was a crook. He also happened to be a Haredi Jew. Does the last fact matter? Yes, according to the politicians who have fallen over themselves to condemn the New York Post’s typically tasteless coverage of the death, which included the headline — based…
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Fast Forward New York Post Faces Boycott Threat Over Menachem Stark Front Page
The New York Post is under fire for a cover story about the murder of Hasidic landlord Menachem Stark. “Who Didn’t Want Him Dead?” blared the headline of the Sunday edition, next to a photo of Stark wearing a large shtreiml and graying side curls. According to the story, Stark “had so many enemies that…
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Opinion In Menachem Stark Slay, Where’s the Humanity?
Menachem Stark, a Brooklyn Hasidic real estate developer, was abducted, murdered, and thrown into a dumpster. Stepping to a new low, the New York Post reports this story with inappropriate levity and derision toward the victim. Practically gloating over Stark’s death, the front cover of [Sunday’s New York Post rhetorically asks, “Who didn’t want him…
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Fast Forward Brooklyn Man Charged With Hate Crimes for 7 ‘Knockout’ Attacks on Jewish Women
A Brooklyn, N.Y. man was arrested and charged for his involvement in seven so-called knockout game attacks. Barry Baldwin, 35, was charged with six counts of assault as a hate crime, six counts of aggravated harassment as a hate crime, and other crimes, including menacing and endangering the welfare of a child for the attacks…
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News Murdered Hasidic Millionaire Menachem Stark Mourned by Overflow Funeral Crowd
An overflow crowd of hundreds of Hasidic Jews gathered Saturday night at an emotional Brooklyn funeral for murdered millionaire real estate developer Menachem Stark. Grief-stricken speakers at the Lodiner Bais Medrash synagogue in Williamsburg recalled Stark, whose charred corpse was found in a Long Island dumpster, as a generous figure who was always quick to…
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Fast Forward Kidnapped Hasidic Millionaire’s Charred Body Found in Long Island Dumpster
A charred body has been found in a Long Island dumpster and police say the corpse is that of kidnapped Hasidic millionaire Menachem Stark. The body was found Friday afternoon and police say it has been identified as Stark, the prominent Satmar real estate developer who was kidnapped at the height of a blizzard Thursday…
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Fast Forward Hasidic Millionaire Menachem Stark Still Missing After Brooklyn Kidnap
Police and Jewish security patrols were frantically hunting for Hasidic milliionaire real estate developer Menachem Stark and relatives vowed to pay a $100,000 reward for his return after he was reportedly kidnapped outside his Brooklyn office. UPDATE: Body found in dumpster identified as kidnapped developer Menachem Stark: sources. With Shabbat here, efforts to find Stark…
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Fast Forward Brooklyn’s Torah Animal World Seeks Savior
(JTA) — Brooklyn Torah Animal World, an idiosyncratic collection of stuffed animals the New York Post has called “NYC’s weirdest museum,” is set to close due to financial hardship. The museum aims to lay out, for the viewer’s pleasure and edification, an array of animals depicted in the Hebrew Bible, including ibexes, emus, peacocks and…
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