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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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Fast Forward Investigators Find Butcher Shop Where Yeshiva Should Be — Then Move On
New York City officials investigating allegations that yeshivas don’t provide enough secular education found a butcher shop on the ground floor of an address listed for a school that received nearly $10 million in federal funding — so they moved on, the New York Post reported. Officials crossed the United Talmudical Academy in Brooklyn off…
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Fast Forward De Blasio Denies He’s Soft On Yeshiva Standards
(JTA) — New York Mayor Bill de Blasio pushed back against criticisms that he has been soft on yeshivas that have illegally declined to offer their students secular studies. Speaking at a press conference Thursday, de Blasio said that city officials had “engaged in a dialogue with a number of schools” that was “very productive.” Likely…
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The Schmooze ‘Crazy Rich Asians,’ ‘The Cut Out Girl’ And More To Read, Watch And Do This Weekend
Aretha Franklin was the heartbeat of American music, an unmatchable talent with an unmatchable presence. Thursday’s news of her death from pancreatic cancer at age 76 was met by testaments to her greatness from everyone from Barack and Michelle Obama to Barbra Streisand. For the Forward, Benjamin Ivry wrote a meditation on Franklin’s lasting Jewish…
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