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Fast Forward WATCH: Man Carves 30 Swastikas Into Wet Concrete On Brooklyn Sidewalk
An unidentified man was caught on camera carving dozens of swastikas into a sidewalk in Midwood, Brooklyn. Police in the area were alerted after property owners on on the 200 block of Newkirk Avenue reported the vandalism. A police spokesman did not say whether the NYPD’s Hate Crime Task Force was involved in the search….
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Fast Forward 179-Year-Old New York Conservative Synagogue To Go Condo
(JTA) — A historic 179-year-old Conservative synagogue in New York’s Upper West Side is moving forward with plans to house a 14-story apartment building. The proposed project for the Shaare Zedek synagogue on West 93rd Street includes 20 condominiums, with a community center for the synagogue in the building’s first three floors, The Real Deal,…
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Books Milo Yiannapoulos Hires Dwarfs Wearing Yarmulkes To Mock Rival
Disgraced ‘alt-right’ provocateur Milo Yiannapoulos hired dwarfs wearing yarmulkes to perform at a New York book launch party as part of an elaborate stunt to mock an observant Jewish rival. Yiannapoulos used the dwarfs to ridicule Ben Shapiro, the editor of the conservative website The Daily Wire, at a Thursday night shindig for his new…
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Opinion Is Gal Gadot White? Here’s What People On The Street Think
Inspired by the debate surrounding the whiteness of Wonder Woman’s Gal Gadot, we took to the streets to see what the average New Yorker has to say. Michael Heckle is the Forward opinion summer fellow and ASME associate.
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Fast Forward Does Heroin Overdose Signal Bigger Problem For Brooklyn Ultra-Orthodox?
The public health crisis of rampant opioid abuse has reached the insular ultra-Orthodox community in Brooklyn. Malky Klein, a 20-year-old ultra-Orthodox woman from Borough Park, died of an overdose last month, the New York Post reported. Jewish volunteer ambulances were called to the Klein home on June 24th after Klein’s mother found her unconscious in…
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Fast Forward Teen Arrested In Vandalism Of NY Jewish Camp Charged With Hate Crime
(JTA) — A local teenager has been arrested and charged with vandalizing a Jewish camp in upstate New York. Camp Shomria in Liberty, New York, run by the Hashomer Hatzair movement, was broken into on June 12. The interior and exterior of several of the buildings was damaged and covered in anti-Semitic graffiti. Christopher Santoro,…
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News Iconic LGBTQ Synagogue Told Marchers To Avoid Israel ‘Messaging’ At Pride Parade
Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, the iconic Manhattan LGBTQ synagogue, instructed marchers joining it June 25 in the New York Pride Parade to avoid wearing clothing or carrying signs relating to the Jewish state or the Palestinians, the Forward has learned. A CBST rabbi asked in an email for the groups to ensure that their marchers…
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Fast Forward Orthodox Rabbi Found Dead At Jewish Summer Camp
(JTA) — A haredi Orthodox rabbi was found dead at a Jewish camp in upstate New York. Rabbi Pinchas Elya Weinberger, 38, was found on Monday morning dead in his bed at Kasho Camp in the Town of Wawarsing, New York. An investigation by the Ulster County Sheriff’s Office found that the rabbi died of…
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