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News Bar Mitzvah Boy Sammy Cohen-Eckstein Mourned by Hundreds at Brooklyn Funeral
Hundreds gathered at Congregation Beth Elohim in Park Slope on Thursday for the funeral of a 12-year-old boy killed Brooklyn boy who was struck by a van and killed on Tuesday evening outside his home near Prospect Park. Amidst audible sobs in the packed synagogue, friends and family of Samuel Cohen-Eckstein stood to bid him…
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Fast Forward Janet Yellen’s Brooklyn Childhood Friends Remember When
To some who knew Janet Yellen decades ago, her nomination to lead the Federal Reserve was no surprise, and had them feeling reassured the country’s monetary system would be in capable hands. “We referred to her as a stealth intellect,” said Charles Saydah, a retired journalist who went to junior high and Fort Hamilton High…
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Fast Forward Brooklyn Bar Mitzvah Boy Samuel Cohen-Eckstein Killed in Tragic Accident
A 12-year-old Brooklyn boy was struck by a van and killed on Tuesday evening while chasing a soccer ball outside his home near Prospect Park, police said. Popular eighth-grader Samuel Cohen-Ecktein, 12, was crushed when he ran into Prospect Park West Tuesday night. Cohen-Eckstein was hit by an oncoming 2006 white Chevrolet van, and was…
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Culture Meet Ezra Goldstein, the Oracle of Literary Brooklyn Community
Once upon a time in Zanesville, Ohio, Ezra Goldstein faced a life-altering choice: stay put and help run the family electrical shop, or chase the dream of being a writer. Fast-forward three decades to Brooklyn, N.Y., circa 2010, when Goldstein faced a fork in the road that in many ways mirrored the first. This time,…
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Opinion Celebrating Simchat Torah, Brooklyn-Style
It was a Simchat Torah celebration that surely most of the Hasidim walking past had never before witnessed: hundreds of liberal Jews, men and women, young children and the middle-aged, dancing together with Torah scrolls held aloft. Revelers twirled round and round in Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza, just outside the entrance to Prospect Park. “Simchat…
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Fast Forward Thousands of Kapparot Chickens Die in Brooklyn Heat
Thousands of chickens designated for the pre-Yom Kippur kapparot ritual died in New York due to unseasonable heat. An estimated 2,000 chickens died Wednesday in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Borough Park on Wednesday, when temperatures climbed into the mid-90s, the New York Daily News reported. Chaim Singer,32, told the newspaper that water and shade were…
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Fast Forward Ring of Observant Jewish Drug Dealers Refused to Work on Shabbat
Law enforcement took note that the members of a drug ring in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn were keeping unusual hours. What drew attention was not when the pushers were doing business, but rather when they weren’t. According to the New York Daily News, a group of apparently Jewish men have been indicted for running a shomer…
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Fast Forward Jew Who Heckled Anthony Weiner Defends Anti-Arab Remark About Wife
The Jewish man who started a war of words with Anthony Weiner admits making an anti-Arab remark about the embattled New York mayoral candidate’s wife as he campaigned in a Brooklyn bakery. A hard-to-identify man was caught blurting out “married to an Arab” at Weiner as he stumped for votes in Weiss Family Bakery in…
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