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Fast Forward Disabled New Yorker Has Sued 195 Businesses Since 2010
A double-amputee from Brooklyn has sued nearly 200 businesses in the last seven years for failing to accommodate customers in wheelchairs—which some see as abusing the legal system while others classify as fighting for fellow citizens with disabilities. Zoltan Hirsch, age 37, has filed 195 claims since 2010, the New York Post reported Saturday. The…
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Fast Forward ‘Future Dead Cops’ Tweet Has College Lecturer In Hot Water
A lecturer at a New York City college of criminal justice who wrote on social media that he teaches “future dead cops” was placed on leave on Friday as the city’s mayor called the academic’s comment “vile.” “Some of y’all might think it sucks being an anti-fascist teaching at John Jay College but I think…
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Fast Forward Israeli Consulate In NY Evacuated After Netanyahu Death Threat
NEW YORK (JTA) — The Israeli consulate in New York City was evacuated after receiving a threatening letter. The consulate’s spokeswoman, Almog Elijis, confirmed that the building was evacuated Friday due to a threatening package and that the situation was under control, but did not provide further details. The Jerusalem Post reported, based on a…
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Breaking News Lawmaker Who Wants To Rename Trump State Park Flooded With Anti-Semitic Hate
(JTA) — A New York assemblywoman has been receiving hate mail since proposing a bill that would rename Donald J. Trump State Park in honor of the counterprotester killed during the Charlottesville white supremacist rally. Nily Rozic, a Queens Democrat who was born in Jerusalem and moved to New York as a child, said she…
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Fast Forward New York Man Arrested For Anti-Semitic Threat To Westchester Mayor
(JTA) — A White Plains, New York, man was arrested for allegedly sending and anti-Semitic-laced email to the Greenburgh town supervisor. Greenburgh Town Supervisor Paul Feiner had been pushing to remove a monument to Confederate soldiers in a private cemetery on the town. At the beginning of the month he backed off his request to…
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Breaking News Ralph Friedman, New York’s Toughest Cop, Is Now A TV Star
(JTA) — There are almost as many reality cop shows on television as there are Real Housewives. “Cops” is the granddaddy of them all, in its 30th season, plus there’s “Night Watch” and “Live PD,” to name just a few. The newest is “Street Justice: The Bronx,” which premieres Sept. 19 on the Discovery Channel….
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Fast Forward Hasidic Leader Alone Among Pols From Pre-9/11 Front Page To Keep Clout
Local primary races in New York City are pretty ho-hum this year. With no real challenger for Mayor Bill de Blasio, primary day will pass more-or-less unnoticed tomorrow. Sixteen years ago yesterday was a different story. After eight tumultuous years, Rudy Giuliani was term limited out, clearing the way for what the New York Times,…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Vandals Hit Riverdale Home Of New York Prosecutor’s Parents
(JTA) — The parents of New York State’s Assistant Attorney General Jenny Michael were attacked with anti-Semitic vandalism. Michael’s father, former New York City Budget Director Philip Michael, discovered the vandalism Sunday morning on the door to the family’s home in a Riverdale neighborhood of the Bronx. The word “Jew” was spray painted in large…
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