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Fast Forward Mayor Bill De Blasio Steps Up Crane Safety After Collapse That Killed ‘Angel’
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio on Sunday unveiled a series of new policies governing the use of construction booms in the United States’ largest city, after a deadly crane collapse in Manhattan that killed a Jewish man remembered as an “absolute angel.” A massive “crawler” crane being used to lift equipment into a building…
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Fast Forward Jerry Seinfeld Plays Monthly Gigs at Upper West Side Theater
Comedian Jerry Seinfeld on Tuesday announced a series of stand-up shows in New York next year, saying he will perform once a month at a theater in his Manhattan neighborhood. The Emmy-winning co-creator of “Seinfeld,” the beloved 1990s comedy series “about nothing,” will take on a residency at the city’s Beacon Theatre, performing once a…
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Fast Forward Manhattan Synagogue and School Emptied by Bomb Threat
A Manhattan synagogue was evacuated after receiving a bomb threat. The Jewish Center, a Modern Orthodox synagogue on Manhattan’s Upper West Side was evacuated by New York City police Monday morning, who thoroughly searched the building, synagogue Executive Director Aaron Strum said in a statement. Police are investigating the incident, according to Sturm. A Jewish…
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Fast Forward Man Charged in Upper East Side Attack on Jewish Couple
A 23-year-old Brooklyn man was arrested for assaulting an Orthodox Jewish couple in Manhattan this summer. A New York Police Department spokesman confirmed to JTA that Mustafa Mashni was charged with assault, as first reported on the Jpupdates website. The victims, in their 20s, were walking on the Upper East Side at approximately 8 p.m….
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Culture Writing About Gaza From Comfort of Debra Winger’s Manhattan Pad
(Haaretz) — It’s so weird to be writing from here. To be writing from New York, where we decided to make a week-long stop before going on to Illinois. How can I write about what’s happening in Israel when I’m not there? How can I sound credible writing about the children in the Gaza Strip…
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News Is New York Developer’s ‘Poor Door’ Plan Un-Jewish?
A New York City developer plans to create a so-called “poor door” entrance for affordable housing residents in a luxury condo — an arrangement that critics slammed as fundamentally at odds with Jewish ethics. City officials have signed off on Extell Development Company’s controversial plan to cut off lower-income renters from those paying top dollar…
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Opinion I Miss J&R Already
Shopping at J&R Music World always felt weirdly haimish. Despite the fact that the electronics retailer owned an entire (and very lucrative) block in Lower Manhattan, there was something endearingly shabby about the chainlet founded by Israeli immigrants Joe and Rachelle Friedman (J. and R., get it?) as a basement record store in 1971. On…
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Opinion The ‘Draft Dodgers’ in Our Midst
When 50,000 ultra-Orthodox Jews flooded the streets of lower Manhattan this past Sunday, clogging the alleyways that curl through the Financial District with black hats and single-minded devotion, they did more than recite psalms in protest at what is now a new law in Israel. They introduced a new challenge to the Israel conversation at…
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