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News Mom-and-Pop Hasidic Businesses Get Big Boost From Small Financing
Lazer Chaim Zinger washes talleisim. His small storefront on Lee Avenue, in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, looks like any dry cleaner, with a row of tagged plastic-sheathed garments hanging behind the counter. In this Hasidic Jewish neighborhood, however, you have to take your long black coat somewhere else. For $100, Zinger will hand-wash your…
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Israel News Amare Stoudemire Talks Jewish During Maccabiah Games Visit to Israel
(JTA) — The two Israeli television cameramen awaiting the Canadian basketball team’s arrival at the opening ceremony of the Maccabiah Games didn’t hint at the chaos about to envelop Amar’e Stoudemire. The 6-foot-11 forward for the New York Knicks stepped from the chartered bus last Thursday and the cameramen departed, duly satisfied they had captured…
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News Jack Hidary’s Longshot Bid for New York Mayor Divides Syrian Jews
Jack Hidary, a well-connected tech millionaire, thinks he has a shot at being elected mayor of New York City. But his dark horse quest may tear Brooklyn’s Syrian Jewish community in two. Hidary, who announced his candidacy in a respectfully reported New York Times story on July 16, is a scion of one of New…
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Fast Forward Anthony Weiner Faces Pressure From Newspapers To Quit Mayor Race
New York City newspapers called for mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner to bow out of the race on Wednesday after fresh revelations that he had continued sexually charged online chats for more than a year after his resignation from Congress. Weiner, among the front-runners in the race for New York mayor, admitted on Tuesday he had…
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Fast Forward Huma Abedin Sticks by Anthony Weiner After New Sext Revelation
New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner on Tuesday vowed to stay in the race despite admitting sending sexually explicit messages and photos to women even after the online sex chat scandal that cost him his congressional seat. With his wife standing by his side, Weiner told a news conference he had sent some of…
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News Eying Orthodox Vote, New York Mayor Candidates Back Aid to Religious Schools
New York City’s leading Democratic mayoral candidates are pledging to back taxpayer aid to private religious schools in a bid to draw Orthodox Jewish support. Christine Quinn and Anthony Weiner, who lead in the Democratic mayoral polls, both spoke in favor of city aid to for private schools at separate campaign events in early July….
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Fast Forward New York Measles Outbreak Halted Among Orthodox
A measles outbreak among New York’s Orthodox Jewish community has been curtailed, according to officials for the city’s department of health. From March to June, 58 cases of measles were reported in Williamsburg and Boro Park in Brooklyn, two heavily populated Orthodox Jewish communities, among children and adults who were not vaccinated or had denied…
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Fast Forward Gilad Shalit Will Lead Aliyah Flight From U.S.
Gilad Shalit will accompany a flight of new immigrants, including 106 children, leaving New York for Israel on Monday. The former captive soldier will be onboard the first chartered El Al aliyah flight of the summer, which will leave John F. Kennedy Airport with 231 new immigrants, including 41 families. A live feed of the…
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