This is the Forward’s coverage of Brooklyn, a borough of New York City home to a major population of Hasidic Jews.
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Fast Forward Salesman Indicted in Jewish Merchant Killings
A Brooklyn grand jury on Tuesday indicted a clothing salesman on murder charges in the shooting deaths this year of three shopkeepers of Middle Eastern descent, prosecutors said. Salvatore Perrone, 63, was arrested a week ago on suspicion of murder when a witness in a pharmacy matched his likeness to a photo circulated by police…
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Opinion Shhh: NY Times Reports on Orthodox GOP Vote
Some news, apparently, is fit to print, but not too boldly. Take, for example, the demure self-censorship on display Saturday in the New York Times’ eye-opening report, headlined “On Island, Largely Blue, an Exception: Trump Tower,” on the handful of New York City neighborhoods that voted for Mitt Romney over President Obama. Overall, the city…
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News The Ruins of Jewish Brownsville
Brownsville, Brooklyn is perhaps most famous as a rough neighborhood and the birthplace of boxer Mike Tyson, but in the 1940s and 1950s the community was home to a large Jewish community. In this podcast reporter Jon Kalish rides along with the late Greg Jackson, a former basketball player who was born and raised in…
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Fast Forward Salesman Confesses to Jewish Merchant Killings
New York City police charged a local clothing salesman on Wednesday with murder in the shooting deaths this year of three shopkeepers of Middle Eastern descent, including two Jews, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said. Salvatore Perrone, 63, was arrested after being recognized on Tuesday by someone at a pharmacy in Brooklyn, Kelly said. Police had…
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Fast Forward Hanukkah Comes Early for Sandy Victims
Chanukah came early for children in Brooklyn after a toy store in Borough Park handed out more than $10,000 worth of toys to those affected by superstorm Sandy. Yonasan Schwartz, the owner of Toys to Discover on 18th Avenue in the heavily Jewish area of the New York borough, gave out more than 600 packages…
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Fast Forward Cops Grill Suspect in Jewish Serial Killing
New York City police have found a rifle and ammunition in a duffle bag belonging to a man being questioned in connection with the shooting deaths of three Middle Eastern shopkeepers in the past five months, a law enforcement official said Wednesday. The suspect, dubbed “John Doe Duffel Bag” because of the bag he carries…
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Fast Forward Brooklyn Jews Gunned Down by Same Killer
New York police released a security video of a potential suspect in the killings of three Brooklyn shopkeepers, two of whom were Jews. The video depicts a ‘person of interest’ in the murders, which investigators believe were carried out with the same .22-caliber weapon. Police have dubbed the man ‘John Doe Duffle Bag.’ The FBI…
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Food Dispatches From Kosherfest 2012
Kosherfest, the largest (and only) kosher food industry trade show in the world, hosted its 24th annual expo in Secaucus, NJ, on November 13th and 14th. Thousands of players in the kosher food world show up each year, from giants like Manischewitz, Streit’s and Osem, to the godfathers of kosher certification, including the big four:…
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