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News Con Ed Threatens to Turn Out the Lights on Jared Kushner Properties
Jared Kushner’s real estate empire isn’t paying all its bills, according to the New York City electric company Consolidated Edison, which is threatening to cut off power at some of his properties in the East Village after one of his management firms failed to pay hundreds of dollars in fees. “We regret to notify you…
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News Vandals Spray Neo-Nazi Graffiti in Another Brooklyn Park
A worker at park between Brooklyn and Queens discovered swastikas and neo-Nazi graffiti scrawled on benches Thursday, the latest in a wave of hate crimes in New York City. The vandalism at the Newton Creek Nature Walk included swastikas, the slogans “Go Home Refugees,” “Heil Hitler,” “Now begins 1000 years of TRUMP!, and insults directed…
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News L Train Subway Shutdown Threatens Livelihood of Brooklyn Satmar Hasidim
Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced on Jan. 3, 2019 that New York’s L subway line will not be shut down for 18 months after all. This will come as welcome news to the Satmar Hasidim who live in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, many of whom use the line. Here’s how the Forward covered the potential…
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Opinion What New York’s Subway Lines Taught Me About Jewish Identity
I confess that I was taken aback by the popularity of my last piece for the Forward, In that article, I used some seat-of-the-pants social science and mapping to figure out which line of the New York City Subway served the greatest number of Jews — which turned out to be the “F.” I had…
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Fast Forward Nazi Insignias Yanked From New York Subway After Outcry
Amazon.com Inc on Monday agreed to pull advertisements for a new television show featuring Nazi-inspired imagery from New York City’s subway system, a transit official said, hours after Mayor Bill de Blasio called on the company to do so. The advertisements for “The Man in the High Castle” completely wrap the seats, walls and ceilings…
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The Schmooze Why Furniture Exec Mitchell Gold is Challenging Religious Hatred
One needs to look no further than July’s gay pride parade in Jerusalem for evidence the danger religious bigots pose to LGBT youth. An ultra-Orthodox Jew, Yishai Schlissel, was charged with murder after a knife-wielding rampage that left 16-year-old Shira Banki dead and five others with stab wounds. Schlissel had served 10 years in jail…
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Fast Forward New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio Meets Israeli Terror Victims
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio visited Israeli terror victims at a Jerusalem hospital. “When you are attacked, we also feel attacked,” de Blasio said during the visit Saturday night to the Hadassah Medical Center in Ein Kerem with his Jerusalem counterpart Nir Barkat. “We in New York are very familiar with the effects…
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The Schmooze Clint Eastwood Shoots ‘Sully’ on Upper West Side, Asks Jews to Move Cars on Sukkot
If you’re a car-owning Jew on the Upper West Side, beware! Rosh Hashanah brought a shakeup over filming of the new “Ghostbusters” movie, which came to the neighborhood over the holiday. Residents on the closed-off streets were asked to move their cars during the holiday, when anyone observing it would be unable to drive. A…
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