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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News Sandy Wreaks Untold Havoc on Jewish Communities
The massive storm system that ransacked the East Coast on October 29 brought unprecedented devastation to Jewish communities in and around New York City. Sandy pushed eight-foot-high waves through the Brooklyn neighborhood of Manhattan Beach. In Sea Gate, on the western tip of Coney Island, entire homes collapsed. An apartment building was evacuated after basement…
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Fast Forward Jewish Pair Killed as Sandy Topples Tree
Two Jewish 23-year-olds were killed in the midst of Hurricane Sandy on Monday night while walking their dog in Brooklyn. Jacob Vogelman and Jessie Streich-Kest were hit by a falling tree in the Ditmas Park neighborhood, the New York Observer reported. The two grew up at Park Slope synagogues, according to a source who knows…
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News Jewish Enclave Devastated by Sandy’s Wrath
Video: Nate Lavey Hurricane-force winds and historic flooding from superstorm Sandy have devastated the Brooklyn neighborhood of Sea Gate, a gated community on the western tip of Coney Island that is home to several hundred Jewish families. Many homes facing the Atlantic Ocean were gutted by floodwaters. A few were absolutely flattened by the raging…
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Fast Forward Many Turned to Social Media as Sandy Struck
At 10 p.m. on Monday, as the full brunt of Hurricane Sandy was bearing down on the northeastern United States, filmmaker Sandi Dubowski posted an urgent online message. Dubowski’s elderly parents had declined to leave their home in Manhattan Beach, a neighborhood of southern Brooklyn that sits on a small peninsula flanked by the Atlantic…
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Opinion Sandy’s Biblical Threat
Hurricane Sandy won’t last 40 days and 40 nights, but it still seems pretty Biblical to some. Flooding has already been reported in parts of Manhattan and Mayor Michael Bloomberg called for the evacuation of residents in low-lying Zone A. Despite power and heat set to be shut off in public housing complexes in the…
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News Hurricane Sandy Pounds Jewish Communities
As fierce winds battered New York City and Long Island, emergency experts continued to express concern about conditions in heavily Jewish oceanfront neighborhoods. Brighton Beach, Coney Island, and Far Rockaway in Brooklyn and Queens have been under mandatory evacuation since last night. In Long Island, parts of the Five Towns have also received evacuation orders….
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News Hunkering Down as Sandy Roars Up Coast
Officials have ordered the evacuation of several heavily Jewish Brooklyn neighborhoods in the face of the once-in-a-generation hurricane barreling towards New York City and the Jersey Shore. Some in the Hurricane Sandy-threatened areas are taking the warnings seriously. Others, less so. “Everyone is just drinking cocktails and hanging out,” said Dan Sieradski, a guest at…
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Fast Forward Jewish Neighborhoods in Sandy’s Crosshairs
Evacuations were ordered in predominantly Jewish Brooklyn neighborhoods of Brighton Beach and Coney Island as Hurricane Sandy lumbered up the East Coast, shutting down subways and sending shoppers in a panic before she even makes landfall. The oceanfront areas are in New York City’s so-called Zone A, along with Manhattan Beach, which city officials say…
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