What New York lost when it lost the Jewish cafeteria
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Books When we all met at Dubrow’s Cafeteria
Photographer Marcia Bricker Halperin reflects on the Jewish diner that shaped her as a Brooklynite and launched her artistic career
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Fast Forward Orthodox Jewish Man Hit In Face With Belt In Brooklyn Attack
(JTA) — A Jewish man was verbally and physically attacked in the Brooklyn, New York neighborhood of Flatbush. In the Saturday afternoon attack, two men who may have been drunk hit the Jewish man in the face with a belt and yelled “anti-Jewish racial slurs,” the Vosizneias Jewish news website reported. No age was given…
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Fast Forward Brooklyn Yeshiva Demands Apology From New York Times For ‘Subpar’ Photo
Yeshivah of Flatbush is angry at the New York Times for using its photo to illustrate an article about poor education in Jewish religious schools, The Yeshiva World News reported. The Times initially used a photo of Yeshiva Darchei Torah, meeting the wrath of its dean Rabbi Yaakov Bender, who penned a letter in YWN…
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Fast Forward Rabbis Force Brooklyn Kosher Restaurants To Cancel Show With Lesbian Comic
A popular Jewish comedian has twice been forced to find new locations for her show after Brooklyn rabbis threatened to revoke the kosher status of the restaurants that had been booked because she is a lesbian. Leah Forster, who grew up in the Hasidic community and frequently pokes fun at Orthodox habits and lifestyles, was…
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Fast Forward ‘Flatbush Girl’ Pushes Back Over #FrumWomenHaveFaces Campaign
“Flatbush Girl” Instagram personality Adina Miles has faced both praise and pushback after poking fun at a Brooklyn newspaper’s modesty laws. The Flatbush Jewish Journal initially refused to run Miles’s full-page ad, which featured a photo of her in a group with Councilman Chaim Deutsch, because it featured her unblurred face. So Miles altered the…
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Fast Forward Flatbush Girl Launches Modest Proposal: #FrumWomenHaveFaces
It started with an emoji laughing so hard it cried — or crying so hard that it laughed? Adina Miles, the Orthodox Jewish comedian behind the popular social media brand Flatbush Girl, took out a full page ad in the Flatbush Jewish Journal thanking a local city councilman for his service to the Jewish community….
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Culture Neil Diamond Goes Back Home to Brooklyn
Who says you can’t go home again? Singer Neil Diamond returned to Brooklyn Monday for a surprise performance at the high school he attended in the 1950s. Hundreds of fans lined up outside Erasmus Hall High School in the Flatbush section hoping to snag free tickets to hear a rare intimate performance by the entertainer…
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