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Fast Forward Did Charles Hynes Use $200K in Seized Funds for Failed Brooklyn Reelection Push?
An investigation into former six-term Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes found his office spent more than $200,000 in seized criminal funds on consultant services for his failed reelection campaign last year, a report said on Monday. A 27-page report by the New York City Department of Investigations reviewed by Reuters said Hynes is potentially guilty…
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News How ‘Nice Jewish Boy’ Exterminator Rids a City of Pests
Moshe Stein is a nice Jewish exterminator. Whether he is squishing odorous ants, bursting blood-filled bedbugs or trapping rats and roaches, Stein is unfailingly warm, thoughtful and polite. “I personally believe you have to be nice, soft-spoken, because the bottom line is, you are dealing a lot with housewives,” Stein said. “You have to have…
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Fast Forward Tens of Thousands March in 50th Annual N.Y. Israel Parade
Tens of thousands marched in New York in the Celebrate Israel Parade, which is marking its 50th anniversary. Organizers had expected some 35,000 participants in Sunday’s parade up Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. Among the elected officials participating in the annual parade were New York Gov. Mario Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio….
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News Ultra-Orthodox Rabbis Urge Women To Limit Internet Use
Ultra-Orthodox rabbis sought to enlist ultra-Orthodox women in their push to limit Internet use at a rally in Boro Park, Brooklyn on May 29, saying that women are responsible for controlling web access by their husbands and families. Speaking to a crowd of 10,000 women, a panel of rabbis warned of the dangers posed by…
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Opinion Don’t Ban Us From the Celebrate Israel Parade
Conservative Israeli journalist Ben-Dror Yemini, a frequent critic of the New Israel Fund and progressives in general, recently wrote about the manufactured controversy regarding NIF’s participation in the Celebrate Israel parade on Sunday. Acknowledging that we do not in fact support global BDS, the lie that’s been told to justify our exclusion, he wrote that…
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Opinion Turning Israel Day Parade Into Right-Wing Echo Chamber Rolling Down Fifth Ave.
Here’s a brain-teaser: If Mordechai Anielewicz, commander of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, had survived the war and ended up in New York, could he march in the Israel Day Parade? Answer: Not if certain self-appointed guardians of Zionist purity had a say. Anielewicz led the Warsaw chapter of Hashomer Hatzair, the socialist-Zionist youth movement that…
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The Schmooze Yale Jewish Choir Sings at Brussels Vigil
Getty Images (JTA) — Moments before they were scheduled to start singing at an impromptu memorial vigil outside the Jewish Museum of Belgium, the 13 members of Yale University’s Jewish a cappella group were still unsure what number to perform. Fresh off the train from Paris, Magevet’s men and women had not initially planned to perform…
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Fast Forward Retired N.Y. Cop Blames Anti-Semitic Vandalism on ‘Cheap’ Jews
The former New York police officer charged with spray-painting anti-Jewish obscenities in Brooklyn said he did it because of “cheap” Jews. Michael Setiawan, who was arraigned last Friday on a 39-count indictment, made the assertion in court papers, according to the New York Daily News. “When I was a deliveryman, they never gave me anything,”…
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