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News Ultra-Orthodox Jews Spread Into Once-Black Brooklyn Neighborhoods
If you’re looking to move to an apartment on or near Park Avenue, be prepared to break open the piggy bank. Prices are higher than ever and developers are squabbling over construction rights. That’s Park Avenue, Brooklyn – not its swankier Manhattan namesake. For decades, this derelict corner of New York’s most populous borough was…
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Opinion How Not To Close Digital Divide
A powerfully reported story published in last week’s edition of the Forward by our Josh Nathan-Kazis detailed how ultra-Orthodox groups in New York City were exploiting a federal program meant to help poor schools and libraries. The article has prompted two glaring questions. Why is a program that dispenses $2.5 billion a year of our…
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Fast Forward Brooklyn College Political Science Department Signs on as Sponsor of BDS Event
The political science faculty at Brooklyn College reportedly will be an official co-sponsor for an event in support of the BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) movement. The Feb. 7 event will feature Omar Barghouti, the co-founder of the BDS movement, and Judith Butler, an academic who openly speaks sympathetically about Hamas and Hezbollah, according to…
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Fast Forward Hasidic Modesty Patrols Enforce Jewish Law in Orthodox Neighborhoods
One of the most striking ironies of the Nechemya Weberman trial, which ended with his conviction on 59 counts of sexual abuse, was the revelation that the unlicensed therapist was a member of the Va’ad Hatznius, or modesty patrol, the self-appointed arbiters of right and wrong in the Satmar community. Until recently, the Va’ad Hatznius…
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Fast Forward Ehud Halevy, Jewish Victim of Caught-on-Tape Police Beating, Files Civil Right Suit
A Brooklyn man who was beaten by New York police officers at a Chabad youth center in Brooklyn has filed a civil rights lawsuit. Ehud Halevy, 21, filed the lawsuit Jan. 22 in Brooklyn federal court. The assault last October was captured by a security camera. The video shows Halevy exchanging words with a male…
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Fast Forward Nechemya Weberman Gets 103 Year Sentence
An ultra-Orthodox Jewish counselor was sentenced to 103 years in prison on Tuesday for sexually abusing a young female patient over three years in the insular Brooklyn community where they lived. Nechemya Weberman, who was convicted last month of sexual conduct against a child, criminal sexual acts, sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a…
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Fast Forward N.Y. Jewish Growth Tightly Focused: Study
Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods are growing fast in New York while non-Orthodox neighborhoods have begun to shrink, a new study reveals. The New York community also remains highly concentrated, with four distinct areas that would each qualify as one of America’s 20 most-populous areas. Those are key findings from the Jewish Community Study of New York:…
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Fast Forward Aaron Swartz’s Father Blames Feds at Funeral
The heartbroken father of internet activist Aaron Swartz blamed the government for his son’s suicide in an emotional eulogy at his funeral in suburban Chicago. “Aaron did not commit suicide — he was killed by the government,” Robert Swartz said to 200 mourners packing Central Avenue Synagogue in Highland Park, Ill., the New York Post…
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