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The Schmooze Turning Brownstones Green: Interview with Eitan Baron
Courtesy of Greenstone It takes a certain set of skills to make it in New York, and when Eitan Baron moved to the Big Apple in 2000, he definitely didn’t have it. Picking up a suitcase and moving from Azor, Israel, to try his luck at selling oil paintings in Florida was not quite what…
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Fast Forward Giant Palestine Flag Draped on New York Bridge Under Investigation
New York City detectives were searching on Thursday for activists suspected of unfurling a massive Palestine flag over the side of an East River bridge during a march in support of Palestinians in Gaza, police said. The flag, draped over the south side of the Manhattan Bridge between Manhattan and Brooklyn, appeared during a Wednesday…
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Fast Forward Photographer Who Documented Jewish Lower East Side, Dies at 98
Rebecca Lepkoff, a photographer who documented Jewish life on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, has died. Lepkoff, who grew up in a Jewish neighborhood there, died Sunday at 98. Her series of photographs showing the Lower East Side was taken in the 1940s and 1950s. Lepkoff lived a portion of the year in Vermont,…
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Fast Forward CEO David Frankel to Leave Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty
The scandal-damaged Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty is losing yet another CEO. David Frankel, hired to lead the organization in August 2013 following the arrest of predecessor William Rapfogel, will leave the Met Council before the end of the year, the Forward has learned. The former commissioner of the New York City Department of Finance,…
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Fast Forward Man Wrongly Convicted of New York City Rabbi’s Murder Gets $10M Settlement
A man who was wrongly convicted of the 1994 murder of a New York City rabbi and spent 16 years in prison received a $10 million settlement from the city. Jabbar Collins, 42, reached the settlement following three years of litigation that came after a judge exonerated him in 2010, the New York Times reported…
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Culture A Night at The Mmuseumm
Liana Finck has been to Mmuseumm a few times. It occupies an abandoned elevator shaft in Manhattan’s Chinatown, and is beautifully lit and designed so that even everyday and garbage-grade items seem to belong to a heavenly realm. But the closer you get, the less magic they yield. SCROLL DOWN TO ENLARGE. Liana Finck is…
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Life VIDEO: The Only Jewish Female Sword Swallower in America
The Lady Aye from Jewish Daily Forward on Vimeo. “For me a lot of the skill is not so much in shocking the audience — it’s in building the suspense,” explained Ilise S. Carter, a professional part-time sword swallower in New York who performs under the name “Lady Aye.” And it’s true. Most of us…
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Fast Forward U.S. Court Rules NYC Metzizah B’Peh Regulation Must Go Under ‘Strict Scrutiny’
A controversial circumcision regulation hangs in the balance in New York City after a federal appeals court ruled that the regulation targets the freedom of religion of some Orthodox Jews and must therefore be reviewed under a standard known as “strict scrutiny.” Robert Simins, a lawyer for the Orthodox groups who opposed the regulation, hailed…
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