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News Suspected Frum Con Man Targets Orthodox With Elaborate Tales of Woe
Con artists have taken note: New York’s ultra-Orthodox Jews make fairly easy targets. Just slap on a kippah, a dark suit and have a sob story at the ready. Approach the target, preferably on Friday afternoon, close to Shabbat. Tell your story about the car that was towed to the pound. The wallet with the…
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Culture ‘Kosher’ Chicken Sold on ‘Holy’ Lower East Side Was Really Treyf
1913 •100 years ago Treyf Chicken Sold as Kosher “About strikes you’re willing to write, but about my slaughtered chicken with the treyf neck, you won’t write? What kind of paper are you? Where is your sense of justice?” It was with these words that Brooklyn resident Rokhl Beinisohn berated the editors of the Forverts….
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Fast Forward 3 Couples Wed at Empire State Building on Valentine’s Day
Love was in the air atop the Empire State Building as three couples exchanged vows on Valentine’s Day, the only day weddings are permitted at the iconic New York City skyscraper. In back-to-back ceremonies on Friday, the couples were married at a wall of 4,000 red, pink and white roses on the 86th-floor Observation Deck,…
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Fast Forward Etan Patz Murder Case Plagued by New Questions
Manhattan prosecutors are reportedly worried about the weakness of their case against the South Jersey man accused of the notorious 1979 kidnapping and murder of Etan Patz in SoHo. Pedro Hernandez, 52, of Camden, N.J. confessed to the notorious slaying, but there is no physical evidence tying him to the Jewish boy’s killing and he…
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Fast Forward ‘Jewiest Dog’ Falls Short at Westminster Show
The ‘Jewiest dog in show’ returned to the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show Monday — but fell short in the prestigious competition. Pleasant Hill Magnum Of Samara, a Canaan Dog with roots in Israel, failed to make the top 4 in the herding dog category at New York’s Madison Square Garden Monday night. Spokeswoman Julie…
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Fast Forward Head of Staten Island’s United Hebrew Cemetery Charged With $2M Theft
Something stinks on Staten Island. Law enforcement officials have charged the acting president of a Staten Island Jewish cemetery of embezzling $2 million — less than a year after his predecessor’s wife admitted to stealing over $1 million from the same cemetery. Timothy Griffin was arrested February 10 on charges of felony grand larceny. He…
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Fast Forward Rabbis Join Protest Against Uganda Anti-Gay Laws
Human rights activists were unsuccessful in their attempt to deliver a letter to the Ugandan embassy in Washington signed by more than 400 rabbis protesting that country’s anti-homosexuality policy. Monday’s protest in Washington coincided with similar events in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco, and was organized in part by the American Jewish…
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Fast Forward Ultra-Orthodox Internet Company Meshimir Blocks WhatsApp Messaging
An ultra-Orthodox web filtering company will begin blocking photos and videos sent via WhatsApp as of February 11. The smart phone message service, which is wildly popular among ultra-Orthodox Jews, has grown increasingly controversial in recent weeks, with rabbis and community newspapers condemning it in public. Now, key features of WhatsApp will no longer be…
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