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News Yeshiva U.’s Credit Rating Downgraded by Moody’s as $380M Sex Abuse Suit Looms
For the third time in two years, Moody’s, the credit ratings service, has downgraded Yeshiva University’s debt, citing the school’s deep operating deficits, weak cash flow and uncertainty about a pending $380 million lawsuit filed against it. Just a few years ago, Moody’s gave Y.U. a healthy Aa3 credit rating. Moody’s latest report, released October…
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News Bar Mitzvah Boy Sammy Cohen-Eckstein Mourned by Hundreds at Brooklyn Funeral
Hundreds gathered at Congregation Beth Elohim in Park Slope on Thursday for the funeral of a 12-year-old boy killed Brooklyn boy who was struck by a van and killed on Tuesday evening outside his home near Prospect Park. Amidst audible sobs in the packed synagogue, friends and family of Samuel Cohen-Eckstein stood to bid him…
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Fast Forward Orthodox Rabbis Busted in Plot To Force Husbands To Give Religious ‘Get’ Divorces
Two Orthodox rabbis and two others were arrested for allegedly kidnapping and beating men in order to force them to grant their wives religious Jewish divorces. The men were arrested Wednesday night in a monthlong sting operation in which a female FBI agent posed as an Orthodox woman trying to get a religious divorce, or…
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Fast Forward Janet Yellen’s Brooklyn Childhood Friends Remember When
To some who knew Janet Yellen decades ago, her nomination to lead the Federal Reserve was no surprise, and had them feeling reassured the country’s monetary system would be in capable hands. “We referred to her as a stealth intellect,” said Charles Saydah, a retired journalist who went to junior high and Fort Hamilton High…
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Fast Forward Brooklyn Bar Mitzvah Boy Samuel Cohen-Eckstein Killed in Tragic Accident
A 12-year-old Brooklyn boy was struck by a van and killed on Tuesday evening while chasing a soccer ball outside his home near Prospect Park, police said. Popular eighth-grader Samuel Cohen-Ecktein, 12, was crushed when he ran into Prospect Park West Tuesday night. Cohen-Eckstein was hit by an oncoming 2006 white Chevrolet van, and was…
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Opinion When Will Y.U. Learn?
When will Yeshiva University ever learn? When will modern American Orthodoxy’s flagship institution learn to own up to its mistakes, genuinely reform its procedures, live out its values and, above all, provide a safe and honest environment for its students? The latest revelation, that Y.U. hired a new faculty member who had been convicted of…
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Fast Forward Israeli Finance Minister Yair Lapid Tells Charlie Rose Jews Are Safer in New York
It is safer to be a Jew in New York than in Israel, Israeli Finance Minister Yair Lapid told an audience in New York. “Israel was founded as a refuge for the Jewish people, but today it isn’t a safe place. It is safer to be Jew in New York,” Lapid told PBS host Charlie…
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Fast Forward Kosher Chicken Less Safe to Eat, Study Finds
Despite widespread consumer perception that kosher food is healthier and cleaner, kosher chicken might be less safe to consume than conventional poultry, a new study found. Researchers with Northern Arizona State University examined the occurrence of antibiotic-resistant E. coli on four types of raw chicken: conventional, organic, kosher and those raised without antibiotics, all purchased…
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