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Fast Forward Hasidic Businessman Held in Bolivia Returns to U.S.
Jacob Ostreicher, a New York businessman held in Bolivia since 2011, has returned to the United States, the U.S. State Department reportedly confirmed. An unnamed State Department official late Monday confirmed to the Associated Press that Ostreicher was in the United States for the first time in more than two years, but did not provide…
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Fast Forward Brooklyn Jews Worry Over Wave of ‘Knockout’ Attacks
(JTA) — Chava, a student at a Chabad seminary, has lived in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn for six years, but it’s only in the past few days that she started carrying pepper spray in her handbag. Her younger brother gave her the deterrent after news hit of a string of recent attacks against…
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Fast Forward Is ‘Knockout’ Urban Game a Threat to Jews — Or Random Acts of Violence?
Police throughout the United States are investigating whether a rash of teen attacks on strangers, many of them Jewish, is a crime trend known as the “knockout game” or a series of random acts of violence. A savage assault outside a pizza parlor in Philadelphia left a man severely injured, but with all his belongings…
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News Richard Joel Knew About Yeshiva Sex Abuse Allegations, Documents Show
When an investigative team appointed by Yeshiva University reported in August that the school had “failed to appropriately act to protect the safety of its students or did not respond” to credible allegations that they’d been sexually abused, it drew an important caveat: This dereliction of responsibility had continued, the investigators said, “until 2001.” After…
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Fast Forward Brooklyn Man Charged With Beating Jew — New ‘Knock Out’ Attack?
A Brooklyn man was reportedly charged with a hate crime after he beat an Orthodox Jewish man in what police say may be the latest example of a spreading violent urban game known as ‘knock out.’ Amrit Marajh, 28, of Kensington, allegedly hit an identifiably Jewish man as he walked home early Friday in the…
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Fast Forward For New Jersey ‘Monuments Man’ Nazi Art Hunter, Munich Trove Brings It All Back
When news of a hidden trove of Nazi-looted art in Munich came to light this month, an 87-year-old man in a quiet retirement community in New Jersey straightened a copy of a Rembrandt self-portrait hanging on his wall, completely unsurprised. The picture is a constant reminder to Harry Ettlinger of his days with the “Monuments…
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Fast Forward Baruch Lebovits Plea Deal Falls Through — Retrial Looms for Child Abuse Suspect
The prospect of a plea deal for accused child abuser Baruch Lebovits was shot down by both the prosecution and defense — prompting a judge to move toward a retrial of the tangled case. Brooklyn Supreme Court Judge Mark Dwyer set a new hearing on January 23, at which he is expected to set a date…
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Fast Forward Brooklyn Hebrew Charter School’s F Grade Doesn’t Reflect Movement, Leaders Say
(JTA) — On a bright autumn morning, Hebrew songs and phrases fill the sun-drenched, freshly painted blue and white classrooms of New York’s Harlem Hebrew Language Academy Charter School. A group of kindergartners, representing such an even mix of black and white children that they resemble a 1980s Benetton ad, clasp each other by the…
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