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Culture Making a Mockery of Hitler’s Mockery of Degenerate Art
When I looked for the first time at the painting that used to hang above Adolf Hitler’s mantel, I felt weirdly emotionless. It’s a triptych called “The Four Elements,” painted by Adolf Ziegler, and it displays four fair-haired naked women representing fire, water, soil and air. It can currently be viewed in New York City,…
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News New York City Rejects Info Request on Circumcision Parental Consent Forms
New York City has denied a second attempt by the Jewish Daily Forward to obtain information about consent forms gathered under a regulation that warns parents about metzitzah b’peh, a controversial circumcision rite. The city also refuses to say whether such forms even exist. A regulation that came into force at the beginning of 2013…
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Fast Forward Pro-Palestinian Group Spreads ‘Eviction’ Notices to NYU Jewish Students
Pro-Palestinian students from New York University distributed fake eviction notices at a dormitory to protest Israel’s house demolition practices. The pro-Palestinian students slipped phony “eviction notices” under the doors of up to 2,000 undergrads Thursday, alarming some of the Jewish students who live there, the New York Daily News reported. “We regret to inform you…
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Fast Forward 5 Shomrim Charged in Beating of Black Gay Man
Five haredi Orthodox Jewish men were indicted for attacking a gay black man in Brooklyn. The five were charged Wednesday in New York state Supreme Court in Brooklyn with gang assault and other counts for the December attack, but not for hate crimes, WABC-TV reported. They were associated with a civilian neighborhood watch group, the…
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News New York City Stonewalls Forward on Metzitzah B’peh Circumcision Regulations
It’s been more than one year since New York City announced a new regulation to protect infants from contracting herpes during metzitzah b’peh, a controversial circumcision rite that many ultra-Orthodox mohels employ. Since then, two babies in the city that were subjected to MBP, as the rite is known, have been infected with the herpes…
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Fast Forward 4 Hasidic Jews Busted in Beating of Gay Black Man in Brooklyn
The New York Police Department has arrested four Hasidic men in the December beating of a black gay man in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, according to news reports. The NYPD confirmed to the Forward that four men were in custody, but had no information about what they were being held for. The December 1 attack took place…
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News Being Marc Chagall’s Granddaughter Is Gift and Burden for Manhattan Florist
If you’re the kind of person who has a theme for your Passover Seder, and if your theme this year is Marc Chagall, then you might have hired Bella Meyer for your table’s flower display. That’s because Meyer, the proprietor of Fleurs Bella, in Manhattan’s East Village, is Chagall’s granddaughter. One weekday afternoon shortly before…
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Fast Forward Michael Bloomberg Plans $50M Push on Illegal Guns
Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg ramped up his efforts to fight gun violence on Wednesday with a plan to spend $50 million on a grassroots network to organize voters on gun control. The initiative’s political target is the powerful pro-gun lobby, including the National Rifle Association, that spends millions of dollars each year to…
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