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Fast Forward World’s Oldest Man Alexander Imich Takes Star Turn at 111
(Reuters) — The world’s oldest living man is a 111-year-old scholar of the occult who calls New York City his home. Alexander Imich, who was born in Poland in 1903 and survived a Soviet Gulag, emigrated to the United States in the 1950s. He turned 111 in February and assumed the “oldest living” title last…
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Fast Forward N.J. Rabbi David Wax Pleads Guilty in $100K Orthodox Agunot ‘Get’ Extortion
New Jersey Rabbi David Wax pleaded guilty to kidnapping charges as part of a scheme to force an Israeli man to give his wife a get. The rabbi admitted to being paid $100,000 to compel the man — identified by the Associated Press as Yisrael Briskman — to grant his wife a religious writ of…
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Life My Matchmaker Divorced Me
Dan Brownstein / Susan Shapiro and her husband You would think finding someone their bashert would ensure a lifelong friendship, not a vendetta. When I was 29, my friend Valerie set me up with “Aaron,” “a smart handsome screenwriter mensch” she said I should marry. After a tumultuous off-and-on courtship, I finally heeded Valerie’s advice….
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Fast Forward Menachem Stark Suspect Indicted in Murder
A Brooklyn construction worker was indicted for the kidnapping and murder of Brooklyn real estate developer Menachem Stark. A grand jury in Brooklyn on Monday indicted construction worker Kendel Felix, who was employed by a contractor who worked for Stark, the New York Post reported. Felix was arrested on April 30 and admitted that he…
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Opinion Why Ruth Messinger’s Granddaughter Is Also Her Roommate
Francesca Sternfeld and Ruth Messinger / Courtesy of the authors So, imagine sharing a large apartment with someone else who loves life, enjoys good food, cooks well, reads intensively and extensively [but not always the same material] and is not always but often willing to hear about your day or your life and offer wise…
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Fast Forward Ex-N.Y. Cop Arrested for Anti-Semitic Graffiti in Brooklyn
A former New York policeman was arrested for allegedly spray-painting anti-Semitic graffiti in an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Brooklyn. Michael Setiawan, 36, was arrested Sunday for the vandalism spree the previous night throughout Borough Park, New York media reported. The anti-Semitic graffiti was spray-painted in red on a school building and on 20 private residences…
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Fast Forward Cardinal John O’Connor Was Actually Jewish
Cardinal John O’Connor, the late archbishop of New York, was technically Jewish, according to new research. O’Connor’s sister, Mary O’Connor Ward, recently discovered through genealogical research that her mother, Dorothy Gumple O’Connor, was born Jewish but converted to Catholicism before she met and married the O’Connors’ father. Ward told the newspaper Catholic New York that…
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News Construction Worker Kendal Felix Charged in Menachem Stark Murder
A construction worker has reportedly confessed to the January murder of Brooklyn Hasidic businessman Menachem Stark, which he has told investigators was a botched robbery. Kendal Felix, 26, who worked for a contractor who worked with Stark, intended to rob the landlord when he and two buddies snatched him off the street outside his office…
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