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Fast Forward Northeast Paralyzed by Sandy’s Surge
Millions of people in the eastern United States awoke on Tuesday to flooded homes, fallen trees and widespread power outages caused by the giant storm Sandy, which swamped New York City’s subway system and submerged streets in Manhattan’s financial district. At least 15 people were reported killed in the United States by Sandy, one of…
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News Rabbis Pressure Christine Quinn Over Sick Leave
Dozens of prominent liberal New York City rabbis are demanding that 2013 mayoral frontrunner Christine Quinn approve a bill that would require city businesses to provide employees with paid sick days. Members of the City Council overwhelmingly support the bill, as do a handful of other potential mayoral candidates. Quinn, however, the speaker of the…
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Opinion Stop Spying on Muslims
What would it look like to have your movements and your friendships tracked simply because of your religion or where you prayed? Syed Farhaj Hassan knows. He stopped attending his mosque in New Jersey after discovering that the New York City Police Department had it under surveillance. Hassan, a specialist in the Army Reserve, told…
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Fast Forward N.Y. Board Orders Forms for Circumcision Rite
The New York City board of health has voted unanimously to require parents to sign a consent form before allowing a mohel to perform metztizah b’peh, direct oral-genital suction during circumcision. The vote was 9-0 to require parental consent for direct oral suction, a practice employed only by ultra-Orthodox mohels that can lead to transmission…
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News App-arently, It Could Be Easier to Grab a Cab
As those who live in the city will tell you, anyone who thinks New Yorkers can catch a New York cab in a New York minute does not live in New York. But now, the city’s Taxi & Limousine Commission is set to award an exclusive contract for a cab-hailing app with a receiving device…
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Fast Forward Conservative Rabbis Back Circumcision Consent Form
A Conservative rabbinic group is supporting a proposed New York City Board of Health measure that requires parental consent for a controversial circumcision practice, while an Orthodox group opposes the regulation. The health department is scheduled to vote this week on a measure that would require parental consent if a mohel wants to obtain a…
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News Queens Polling Place Moved Out of Church
A polling site in a Queens, N.Y., neighborhood has been moved after some Jewish voters raised concerns about violating their religious beliefs by having to enter the building. Kew Gardens Hills residents will now not have to vote at St. Nicholas of Tolentine Church because their voting venue is being switched to the Kew Gardens…
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The Schmooze The Magnificent Sheva
While Israel has been producing ever more, and ever-more-competent, jazz musicians since a handful of pioneers burst onto the scene in the early 1990s, a new crop of aspirants has appeared, encompassing those who have the kind of style and savvy that at once recalls that past and suggests a future. Here are some to…
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