Who gets to say what is kosher? A Long Island restaurant is caught in the crosshairs
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Fast Forward Brooklyn Jewish Man, Teen Son Stabbed With Box Cutter Outside Synagogue
(JTA) — A Jewish man and his teenage son were seriously wounded when they were stabbed with a box cutter outside a synagogue in Brooklyn. The father, 45, and his son, 18, got into an argument early Sunday morning with three men who were drinking outside the synagogue in the Kensington section bordering the heavily…
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Fast Forward JCC Basketball Coach Charged With Punching 10-Year-Old
A basketball coach at a Jewish community center on Long Island was arrested and charged with assault and endangering the welfare of a child after allegedly punching a 10-year-old, News 12 Long Island reported Monday. The incident allegedly took place at the Sid Jacobson Jewish Community Center in Greenvale. According to police, the boy said…
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News Perry Gershon Leverages Hamptons Star Power In Race Featuring Two Jews
Eastern Long Island is a study in contrasts. It’s got acres of farms, punctuated by mom-and-pop stores. But it’s also home to the Hamptons, where New York’s elite summers. After a day on the stump in early October, Perry Gershon’s campaign for the area’s congressional seat was working that Hamptons glitz with Alec Baldwin, who…
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Fast Forward Hitler’s Great-Nephew Is Not A Fan Of Donald Trump
Some of Adolf Hitler’s last surviving relatives have been living a quiet, normal existence on Long Island — and are not in favor of the president, according to the New York Post. Germany’s Bild newspaper recently paid a visit to Hitler’s great-nephews: Alexander, Louis and Brian Stuart-Houston. They’re the sons of his nephew, William Patrick…
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Fast Forward Long Island Doctor And Wife Die In Small Plane Crash Near Boston
(JTA) — A married couple from New York were killed when their small plane crashed near Boston. Dr. Michael Graver, 65, and his wife Jodi Cohen, 52, of Long Island, were killed on Saturday morning when the plane crashed into the woods in Woburn, Massachusetts. The plane crashed about seven miles from the airport and…
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News As Opioid Crisis Spreads, Affluent Long Island Community Tries To Prepare
About 100 people filled the orange multi-purpose room in the back of a Jewish Community Center in the Five Towns area of Long Island last Monday evening. Men in kippot chatted with women wearing colorful tichels, or head scarves, exchanging thoughts on Israeli news and local politics. The event organizers asked people walking in the…
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News After Alabama Shocker, Will Lee Zeldin Face Music For Embracing Trump — And Bannon?
Taking the stage at the Zionist Organization of America gala, Rep. Lee Zeldin sounded thrilled to introduce the keynote speaker: Steve Bannon. He showered praise on the head of Breitbart News for standing up for Israel against the Palestinians, concluding with a decisive statement that Bannon, accused of turning Breitbart into a platform for the…
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