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Fast Forward Cynthia Nixon Breaks The Internet With A Cinnamon Raisin Bagel – Topped With Lox And Capers
What’s your favorite bagel? It’s a question that local politicians of all stripes have to answer in New York City, like they do for tacos in Los Angeles or BBQ in North Carolina. Cynthia Nixon recently made her tastes known when she walked into the Upper West Side appetizing fortress of Zabar’s and ordered —…
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News Pro-Israel Group Secretly Ran Misleading Facebook Ads To Target Palestinian-American Poet
This story was co-published with ProPublica, the investigative journalism organization. In 2016, as Palestinian-American poet Remi Kanazi performed at college campuses around the United States, his appearances seemed to spark student protests. Before his visit to John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City, a page called “John Jay Students Against Hate” appeared…
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Fast Forward New York Democratic Party Accuses Cynthia Nixon Of Silence On Anti-Semitism
(JTA) — The New York State Democratic Party in a mailer accused gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon of supporting the BDS movement and being silent on the rise of anti-Semitism. Nixon, who is gay and attends Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, an LGBT synagogue, announced her bid for the Democratic nomination for New York governor in March….
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News Legendary Orthodox Rabbi Aware Of Sexual Abuse Of Children, Report Says
Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, a global Jewish leader who officiated at Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner’s wedding, was aware of multiple instances of sexual misconduct by educators affiliated with the Upper East Side school he ran for 50 years, which is considered one of the best private Jewish academies in the country. This is according to…
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Fast Forward 7 Charged With Stealing Millions In School Tech Funds In Hasidic New York Town
Federal prosecutors are charging seven men with stealing millions of dollars in federal funds intended for Orthodox yeshivas in Rockland County, New York. The alleged scheme was to bilk a federal subsidy program called E-Rate, which is meant to pay for internet services for schools and libraries, by billing the program for services that were…
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News How A Respected Jewish Educator Preyed On Children For A Half-Century
By his own admission, Stanley S. Rosenfeld, a Jewish educator who worked primarily in New York City and Rhode Island, sexually abused “hundreds” of children — nearly all middle school-aged boys — during his five-decade career. From a beloved summer camp in New Jersey, to elite Orthodox schools in New York, to a small Conservative…
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The Schmooze The 16 Types Of Jewish Men You’ll Date In New York
In the Torah, God promises Abraham more children than there are stars in the sky and grains of sand in the sea. God is such a drama queen. But those children do tend to congregate — New York has the highest Jewish population of any city in the world other than Tel Aviv — higher,…
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The Schmooze Leonard Bernstein’s Centenary, ‘Memoir Of War’ And More To Read, Watch And Do This Weekend
On August 25, 1918, as World War I barreled further into its final phase and a play called “Lightnin’” prepared for the next-day open of what would be a Broadway run of record-breaking length, a baby was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts with the name of Leonard Bernstein. Over the rest of the 20th century, Bernstein’s…
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