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Fast Forward Teen Allegedly Burns, Draws Swastika On Black Family’s Home
A teenager is in police custody after authorities said he scrawled a swastika on and burned the garage of a black family’s home in the suburbs of Albany, New York. Jennifer and Laquan Madison – along with their five children – ran out of their burning home late on Sunday night after discovering the blaze,…
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Fast Forward Amy Fisher, Jewish ‘Long Island Lolita,’ Returns Home After 25 Years
She’s back on the Island. Amy Fisher, the ‘Long Island Lolita’ who infamously shot her lover’s wife, has reportedly moved back to her suburban stomping grounds 25 years later. Now a 42-year-old divorced mother of three, Fisher said she just wants to live a private life near her family, the New York Post reports. “I…
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Fast Forward Long Island Group With Nazi Past Settles Discrimination Case
Ninety years ago, the small hamlet of Yaphank in Long Island was a Nazi enclave in New York state, with a nearby pro-Nazi summer camp and rules restricting home ownership to Germans. Shockingly, those home ownership rules remained officially in place until this week, when New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman reached a settlement…
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Opinion Why I’m Sending My Jewish Children To A School With Few White Students
This week marks the 63rd anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark Supreme Court case that declared segregated schools, even if they had similar resources, were “inherently” unequal because separating children by race caused serious adverse effects. Shockingly, more than six decades later, New York City has the most racially divided schools in…
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News Raging Blaze Kills Quixotic Dream Of Revival For 167-Year-Old Lower East Side Synagogue
When a 167-year-old synagogue burned to cinders Sunday, lingering hopes of preserving the old Jewish Lower East Side burned with it. Beth Hamedrash Hagadol had survived a century and half as the most visible monument to a Jewish community that has its spiritual roots on the crowded blocks between the Bowery and the East River….
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Fast Forward Fire That Destroyed Historic Synagogue Was Second In A Week: Neighbors
(JTA) — Neighbors of a historic synagogue on Manhattan’s Lower East Side reportedly said a fire erupted inside the building just days before the three-alarm blaze all but destroyed Beth Hamedrash Hagadol Sunday night. Local residents told the New York Post that the first blaze broke out inside the vacant building, but the paper said…
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News Massive Fire Destroys 120-Year-Old Synagogue On Lower East Side
One hundred and twenty years of Jewish history on Manhattan’s Lower East Side came to a tragic ending on Sunday night, as fire destroyed Beth Hamedrash Hagadol, one of the oldest synagogues in New York. For hours, smoke billowed above the neighborhood, once the heart of Jewish life in the city, and residents gathered to…
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News Could Lee Zeldin’s Vote On Trumpcare Cost The GOP Congressman His Seat?
“Congressman Zeldin, how could you do this to us?” This question was posed in a 30-second video ad aired shortly after the May 4 House vote adopting the American Health Care Act, also known as “Trumpcare.” The ad was aimed at the Republican congressman representing New York’s 1st Congressional District, one of two dozen House…
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