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Fast Forward ‘Modern-day Mein Kampf’: NYC Mayor Adams under fire for Hitler reference as calls for his resignation mount
Jewish leaders slammed the mayor’s remarks as 'offensive' and a 'shanda'
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Fast Forward Silver Moon Bakery, UWS spot known for its challah, faces eviction after failing to pay rent
The crisis represents a one-two punch for locals still reeling from the abrupt closure of Absolute Bagels
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Fast Forward A lost film about Jewish immigrants on the Lower East Side returns to the big screen in NYC
Newly restored with a modern score, “Breaking Home Ties” screens as part of the New York Jewish Film Festival, which opens Thursday.
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Fast Forward Jesse Cogan, ad exec who coined the slogan ‘Turn Friday Night into Shabbos,’ dies at 74
Cogan also created slogans for the Soviet Jewry movement and a group that championed Modern Orthodoxy
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Yiddish World Tel Aviv arts center to host event on Yiddish women’s poetry
The inspiration for the event at Neve Schechter was a poem by poet Celia Dropkin about New York's urban experience
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Fast Forward Jews were targeted by the majority of hate crimes in NYC last year, NYPD says
Data compiled by the department showed that there were 345 anti-Jewish hate crimes across the city in 2024, nearly 54% of the 641 total hate crimes tallied
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Fast Forward First-ever Solomon Schechter day school in North America goes Orthodox
The Conservative Jewish school in Queens said in a letter to families the name change reflects the community’s evolving needs
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Culture A loss that leaves a bagel-sized hole on the Upper West Side of Manhattan
Why I’m mourning the closing of Absolute Bagels
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