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Fast Forward After decades, Iran-linked Manhattan skyscraper yields $318M for terror victims
Families of victims of attacks in Israel, including the Sbarro bombing, are among those to be compensated.
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Fast Forward Government takeover of Brooklyn hospital faces legal setback amid Orthodox backlash
State attorney general sends the planned merger of Maimonides Medical Center with New York City’s public Health + Hospitals system to court, for a review that could blow past an April 1 deadline
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Culture A brilliant Jewish storyteller may be gone, but her characters are ‘still talking’
Lore Segal's posthumous short story collection once again shows her mastery of the form
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News A government takeover could save a struggling Brooklyn hospital — while unsettling the Orthodox Jewish community it serves
NYC Health + Hospitals is poised to assume control of Maimonides Medical Center, over the objections of some in the Borough Park community that founded it
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News When observant Jews gathered to challenge Israel orthodoxy, verbal sparring and walkouts ensued
At Smol Emuni’s second US conference in Manhattan, calls for a moral reckoning over Gaza collided with Holy Land doctrine
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News Confronting a Khamenei vigil in NYC, Iranian protesters declare solidarity with Jews
Amid shouts of 'death to America,' and 'death to Israel,' dissenting voices in Washington Square Park drew parallels between the vigil and celebrations of Oct. 7
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News Ronnie Eldridge was one of NYC’s toughest political minds
Friends and family of the longtime City Council member and activist, who has died at 95, remember her as a New York institution all by herself
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Music Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Broadway opus debuts in the U.S. — nearly 80 years late
'Silent Serenade,’ an undersung operetta, is premiering at Mannes Opera
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Fast Forward Talarico won’t campaign with Democratic House candidate who wants to open ‘a prison for American Zionists’
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