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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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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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