Arsonist with ‘kill rabbi’ tattoo sentenced to decades in prison for burning rabbi’s home
Matthew Karelefsky was convicted last month of charges including attempted murder, arson and assault for the crime in Brooklyn
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Fast Forward ‘Rise up red zones:’ Businesses hurt by virus shutdown implore Brooklynites to shop local
An initiative by the Flatbush Jewish Community Coalition is calling on Brooklyn residents to support local small businesses in largely Jewish neighborhoods that were,until recently, designated “red zones,” under New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s COVID-19 policies. “After struggling through a difficult red zone shut down, shopping local has never been more important to us,” said…
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News Orthodox neighborhoods are getting fewer tests for Covid. Why?
Borough Park’s high Covid case rate is well-documented. But city data also shows that the neighborhood has among the lowest testing rates in New York City. The relative lack of testing could mean that Borough Park and other coronavirus hotspots are actually even hotter than we know, said Mark Harrington, the executive director of Treatment…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Man Carves 30 Swastikas Into Wet Concrete On Brooklyn Sidewalk
An unidentified man was caught on camera carving dozens of swastikas into a sidewalk in Midwood, Brooklyn. Police in the area were alerted after property owners on on the 200 block of Newkirk Avenue reported the vandalism. A police spokesman did not say whether the NYPD’s Hate Crime Task Force was involved in the search….
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Fast Forward Brooklyn Mother Who Lost 7 Children in Shabbat Fire Hopes To Build Community Center
(JTA) — The Brooklyn mother who lost seven of her children in a house fire said in her first public remarks on the March 2015 tragedy that she wants to build a center for families on the site of her razed home. “What consoles me most is working on the positive — not lamenting on…
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Fast Forward Did Brooklyn Mother Live With Dead Son For Decade Without Knowing?
An elderly Brooklyn woman was found living with the skeletal remains of her dead son — and police say she might not even have known he was there. Rita Wolfensohn, a widow from the predominantly Jewish Midwood neighborhood, is legally blind and her house was found full of belongings and trash that she has been…
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Opinion A Deadly Plague of Shabbat Fires
The Sabbath fire that killed seven children in an Orthodox Jewish family in Brooklyn on Saturday was at least the fourth deadly blaze in the borough resulting from Sabbath and holiday observance in the past 15 years. In all 11 people have been killed in the four fires, all but one of them children. At…
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Fast Forward Shabbat Hot Plate Eyed in Blaze That Killed 7 Brooklyn Children
Seven children from an Orthodox Jewish family died early on Saturday when flames ripped through their Brooklyn home in one of New York City’s deadliest fires in years, officials said. Their 45-year-old mother and a teenage sister survived after jumping from an upper floor. The two were taken to a local hospital and were in…
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