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This is the Forward’s coverage of the Jewish community in New York state, home to the most Jews of any U.S. state.

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A Year After Sandy, Brighton Beach Struggles To Get Back on Feet

On a warm Saturday in early October, Emily Axelrod subtly smiled as she surveyed the calm ocean off Brighton Beach, a heavily Jewish neighborhood in south Brooklyn. “Now it’s gorgeous,” the 66-year-old Ukrainian immigrant said as she strolled down Riegelmann Boardwalk. But life was dramatically different a year ago, when Hurricane Sandy hit. The Oct….

By Lisa Amand Oct 26, 2013 | 4 min read
Fast Forward
Madoff Employees Were ‘Puppets’ of Enigmatic Employer, Lawyers Say

Lawyers for five former employees of Bernard Madoff said on Thursday their clients were mere puppets under the spell of what one called an enigmatic “broker-dealer rockstar” and “pathological liar.” The former staffers are on trial accused of creating false records and transactions at Bernard Madoff Securities LLC until its implosion in 2008. Investors lost…

By Reuters Oct 17, 2013 | 2 min read
Food
Nigerian Buka Gets Authentic (Jewish) Touch

Getting Nat Goldberg to stop for a minute is no small feat. The Nigerian restaurant Buka, which she co-owns with partner and chef Lookman Mashood, is hopping. Their spice-selling store just opened and African Restaurant Week is going strong through Oct. 20th with three-course, $28.95-prix-fixes and a Friday night hip-hop DJ party. Far from Goldberg’s…

By Lisa Amand Oct 16, 2013 | 3 min read
Fast Forward
Meet the Jewish Teen Who Helped Carry Out Kosher Chicken E Coli Study

For several months during the spring of his 10th grade year, Jack Millman had an unusual Saturday ritual: He and his mother would ride around metropolitan New York and buy up vast quantities of raw chicken. Millman and his mother, Ann Marks, didn’t cook the poultry. Instead they put it on ice and shipped it…

By JTA Oct 14, 2013 | 3 min read
Opinion
How We Cover Sammy Cohen-Eckstein’s Death

The morning after the funeral for Samuel Cohen-Eckstein, the Brooklyn teenager who was killed by a van just a month before his bar mitzvah, the leaders of his family’s synagogue wrote to me, extremely upset about our coverage. Since these are leaders I respect, who raised serious, vexing questions, I responded to them right away….

By Jane Eisner Oct 14, 2013 | 3 min read
News
William Rapfogel’s Empire at Met Council Extends Deep Into Real Estate

From his office above Manhattan’s Financial District, William Rapfogel controlled a charitable empire much larger than most understood. His organization, Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, gave food to poor Jews. But it also cooked up massive real estate deals with powerful for-profit developers, throwing up new low-income housing across the city. All told, Met Council…

By Josh Nathan-Kazis Oct 14, 2013 | 3 min read
Fast Forward
Gabby Giffords Eyes Curbs at N.Y. Gun Show

Former Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was in New York on Sunday to tour her first gun show since being shot in the head to review new measures that require background checks for buyers. Giffords and her husband, former astronaut Mark Kelly, who describe themselves as supporters of the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which…

By Reuters Oct 13, 2013 | 2 min read
Life
Michael Bloomberg Bans Low Self Esteem

New York City just launched an offensive on yet another modern plague: low self-esteem in girls. The city started a new public health campaign aimed to encourage girls, aged 7 to 12 years, to challenge the unattainable notions of beauty foisted upon them by pop culture and advertising. The campaign, which consists mostly of ads…

By Elissa Strauss Oct 11, 2013 | 2 min read

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