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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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News Orthodox Rabbi Stuns Agudath Gala With ‘Heresy’ Attack on Open Orthodoxy
The leading rabbi of Agudath Israel of America, the ultra-Orthodox umbrella group, condemned non-Orthodox streams of Judaism and called the religiously progressive Open Orthodox movement heretical at the group’s annual gala. “The Torah must be guarded from the secular forces that seek to corrupt its values and the lives of [Jews], from intruders who sometimes…
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Fast Forward Yeshiva U. Cedes Control of Money-Losing Einstein Medical School
Montefiore Medical Center is set to take over greater control of the running and financing of Yeshiva University’s money-losing Albert Einstein College of Medicine in a move aimed at easing the medical school’s heavy financial burden on Y.U. In a May 27 statement, Montefiore and Y.U. announced that Montefiore would assume greater responsibility for operations…
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Fast Forward Gang of 4 Rabbis Indicted in Orthodox Divorce Torture Extortion Scheme
Four Orthodox rabbis and one of their sons were indicted on charges of conspiring to kidnap and torture Jewish men to force them to grant religious divorces to their wives. Rabbi Mendel Epstein and his son David Epstein, Rabbi Martin Wolmark, Rabbi Jay Goldstein and Rabbi Binyamin Stiller were charged Thursday in New Jersey federal…
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Opinion Shelly Silver’s Evil ‘Twin’
(JTA) — Evil twins make frequent appearances in the cheesier sorts of movies and television shows, yet tend to be less common in state politics. But not according New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver. Silver has never lacked for chutzpah, but he appears to have taken it to Olympian heights with his most recent…
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Food Katz’s Deli Defies Flood To Stay Open
World-famous Katz’s Delicatessen remains open for business following a water main break right in front of it at the intersection of E. Houston and Ludlow Streets on the Lower East Side on Thursday morning. The break is reported to have taken place took shortly before 11 a.m., and all lanes of East Houston Street were…
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Fast Forward Ex-Student Charged With Stealing $50K From Yeshiva of Staten Island
A Staten Island man was charged in the theft of blank checks from a yeshiva he reportedly attended and cashing them for more than $50,000. Yehuda Rubin, 31, who lives near the Yeshiva of Staten Island, allegedly cashed 16 checks stolen from the school office in 2011 over a five-month period, the Staten Island Advance…
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Fast Forward Arthur Gelb, Pioneering Times Editor and Critic, Dies at 90
Arthur Gelb, the New York Times managing editor whose arts sensibility and journalistic vigor molded the paper for decades, died Tuesday at age 90 of complications from a stroke, his son said. The veteran newsman reportedly died in New York. Son Peter Gelb told the Times his father died of complications of a stroke. Arthur…
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