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Food Last BBQ of the ‘Goyish Year’
Ari White thought it was time to “show Brooklyn some love”. And he did it on Sunday and Monday — with 2,500 pounds of meat. White’s the pit boss of Bronx-based Hakadosh BBQ, whose “Wandering Que” brings kosher Texas smokehouse pop-ups to street fairs across New York City. But White’s custom-built “BBQ rig” had never…
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Fast Forward Four New York Minors Arrested in Connection to So-Called ‘Knockout Game’
Four minors were arrested in connection with what are believed to be “knockout game” attacks in Brooklyn, DNAinfo New York reported. The New York Police Department arrested a 14-year-old girl and three other youths, aged 10 and 11, for involvement in three assaults in the borough in October and November. The victims were three Jewish…
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News Taking Dreidel for Spin in Heart of Brooklyn’s Hipster Heaven for Hanukkah
The crowd leaned in closer toward the game table as the competitors nervously practiced spinning techniques before the final round of the first Major League Dreidel tournament of the 2013 season. But something wasn’t quite right. “I know exactly what this needs,” said Eric Pavony, 34, founder and self-styled “knishioner“ of Major League Dreidel, before…
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Fast Forward Brooklyn Jews Worry Over Wave of ‘Knockout’ Attacks
(JTA) — Chava, a student at a Chabad seminary, has lived in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn for six years, but it’s only in the past few days that she started carrying pepper spray in her handbag. Her younger brother gave her the deterrent after news hit of a string of recent attacks against…
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Fast Forward Is ‘Knockout’ Urban Game a Threat to Jews — Or Random Acts of Violence?
Police throughout the United States are investigating whether a rash of teen attacks on strangers, many of them Jewish, is a crime trend known as the “knockout game” or a series of random acts of violence. A savage assault outside a pizza parlor in Philadelphia left a man severely injured, but with all his belongings…
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Fast Forward Brooklyn Man Charged With Beating Jew — New ‘Knock Out’ Attack?
A Brooklyn man was reportedly charged with a hate crime after he beat an Orthodox Jewish man in what police say may be the latest example of a spreading violent urban game known as ‘knock out.’ Amrit Marajh, 28, of Kensington, allegedly hit an identifiably Jewish man as he walked home early Friday in the…
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Fast Forward Baruch Lebovits Plea Deal Falls Through — Retrial Looms for Child Abuse Suspect
The prospect of a plea deal for accused child abuser Baruch Lebovits was shot down by both the prosecution and defense — prompting a judge to move toward a retrial of the tangled case. Brooklyn Supreme Court Judge Mark Dwyer set a new hearing on January 23, at which he is expected to set a date…
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Fast Forward Brooklyn Hebrew Charter School’s F Grade Doesn’t Reflect Movement, Leaders Say
(JTA) — On a bright autumn morning, Hebrew songs and phrases fill the sun-drenched, freshly painted blue and white classrooms of New York’s Harlem Hebrew Language Academy Charter School. A group of kindergartners, representing such an even mix of black and white children that they resemble a 1980s Benetton ad, clasp each other by the…
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