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Fast Forward 2 NYC yeshivas are not meeting standards and must effectively close, state rules
The Williamsburg yeshivas were penalized after ignoring requests from the state education department to enter a remediation process
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Fast Forward Jewish groups compare Trump to Pharaoh, ask New York leaders to resist immigration order
‘We implore you to be the leaders we desperately need at this moment,’ the rabbis wrote in a letter to Mayor Eric Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul
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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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