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Opinion David Brooks Only Wrote About the Orthodox 1%
Probably no more than the top 10 percent of Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jews will ever shop at Pomegranate, the luxury kosher supermarket recently featured by The New York Times columnist David Brooks in a column titled “The Orthodox Surge.” Brooks chose the upscale kosher version of Whole Foods as the fulcrum of an admiring piece on…
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The Schmooze Happy Birthday Neil Sedaka!
Before the Beatles “loved us do” and the Rolling Stones searched for “Satisfaction,” there was Neil Sedaka. A Jewish heartthrob from Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, he was one of the legendary Brill Building composers, along with collaborators Howard Greenfield and Carol King — also his former girlfriend, and namesake for the hit song “Oh Carol” (1959)….
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Recipes A Jewish Smorgasbord Grows in Brooklyn
Growing up a child of Polish Jewish Holocaust survivors in central Brooklyn in the 1960s, the only time I saw a raw vegetable in our kitchen was when celery, parsnips, carrots and turnips were being washed and peeled for the weekly cauldron of chicken soup that simmered on our stove on a low gas flame…
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Life Hit-and-Run Tragedy Bridges Jewish Divide
I generally find it hard to feel as if I am part of the same Jewish people as Satmar Hasidim. Living not far from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, I see them regularly yet it’s hard to imagine feeling more worlds apart. At the mall I encounter young women — so young that in another life I would…
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Fast Forward Relatives Relieved at Arrest of Hit-and-Run Driver Who Killed Orthodox Family
Family and friends of the Orthodox family wiped out in a hit-and-run car crash over the weekend were relieved at the arrest of the killer driver, but still heartbroken at their crushing loss. Career criminal Julio Acevedo, 44, who has admitted slamming his car into the livery cab carrying the couple to the hospital to…
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Fast Forward Shameless Hit-and-Run Killer Says Sorry for Killing Orthodox Couple, ‘Miracle’ Baby
The shameless hit-and-run driver who killed an Orthodox couple as they rode to the hospital to deliver their first driver told a reporter that he was sorry that they died along with their newborn boy. Career criminal Julio Acevedo, who is still on the run from police, said he raced away from the horror Sunday…
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Fast Forward Career Criminal With Link to Rapper 50 Cent Hunted in Deadly Hit and Run
Police were still hunting Tuesday for the hit-and-run driver who allegedly causing the deadly crash that killed an Orthodox couple as they headed to the hospital to deliver their first baby. Suspect Julio Acevedo, 44, of Brooklyn is a career criminal who served eight years for manslaughter over a shooting death in Brooklyn, the Daily…
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Fast Forward ‘Miracle’ Orthodox Jewish Baby Dies After Parents Killed on Way to Hospital
The ‘miracle’ has turned to more tragedy. A newborn baby who was delivered by emergency C-section after his parents were killed in a car accident on their way to the hospital has died, a New York police spokesman said. The baby boy died from injuries overnight at New York’s Bellevue Hospital, the spokesman said. His…
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