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The Schmooze Busted: Cabbie Littered NY Streets With ‘Kill Jews’ Notes
Not content with tossing mundane litter like cigarette butts or gum out his car window, Demetrios Apolonides decided to jazz up his trash with notes that read “kill Jews.” Unfortunately for him, the police caught his trail; the former Brooklyn livery driver was arraigned yesterday on a hate crime charge of aggravated harassment, according to…
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Culture Who’s That Guy in the Black Hat Next to Cuomo?
Only one ultra-Orthodox fixer appears to have accompanied New York gubernatorial hopeful Andrew Cuomo on all four of his early October visits to Brooklyn’s Hasidic rebbes. A YouTube video (see below) shows the man, wearing the fedora typical of the non-Hasidic ultra-Orthodox, sitting diagonal to Cuomo in a meeting with Rabbi Zalman Leib Teitelbaum, one…
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Life Brooklyn Hasidim Protest Bus Ads. Bikini Models Protest Back.
Bikini clad models were trotted out at New York City’s transportation headquarters this week to protest the Brooklyn Hasidic communities’ protest of their presence in advertisements for Georgi vodka on the sides of buses that pass through neighborhoods heavily populated by the ultra-Orthodox community. More can be read in this report on the Fox News…
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The Schmooze Hummus Taste-Off Promotes Peace
At the Peace Market party at M2 Ultralounge on March 10th, a crowd of over 1,000 people gathered to support Seeds of Peace, an organization founded to promote dialogue between young people living in regions of conflict. And yet, at least one element of the event actively promoted conflict. The event was host to what…
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Life Diane Ravitch Flunks Hebrew School
Noted historian and education expert Diane Ravitch is weighing in on New York City’s planned Hebrew language charter school. And, unsurprisingly, this champion of civic education and e pluribus unum — and ardent opponent of multiculturalist cant and other centrifugal forces — is not pleased by this latest effort to enlist the public schools in…
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Life Stop the Presses: Ha’aretz Discovers Jews on Upper West Side (But the Times Beat Them to It)
Writing in Ha’aretz, Marco Greenberg offers an ode to Jewish life on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, and drops the following bombshell: “Even the New York Times has recently picked up on the UWS-Jewish connection.” Greenberg goes on to observe that the “Upper West is perhaps the last spot on earth where people walk rather than…
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Life Only in New York: Hanukkah Subway Attack Was a Multi-Ethnic Mash-up
I never thought that there would be a Hanukkah-related brawl on my favorite subway line — let alone one that would dominate the front pages of New York’s tabloids. As the alleged victims of the attack tell the story to the Daily News, the four of them boarded a Brooklyn-bound Q-train after celebrating Hanukkah at…
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News David Yassky: Good for the Environment
The New York Observer’s Azi Paybara has a great story about the Brooklyn councilman, who like Al Gore has focused on the environment after losing a high-profile race (in his case, for Congress).
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