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News A Jewish Hipster Haven Grows In Brooklyn’s Chabad Heartland
NEW YORK (JTA) — Soon after Nechama Levy moved to Brooklyn five years ago, she opened a bicycle repair shop. The spacious, high-ceilinged store was just down the street from a new pub with exposed brick walls. Like many who have moved recently to the rapidly gentrifying borough, Levy, 33, was drawn to the area’s relatively…
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Fast Forward Anthony Weiner Pleads Guilty In Sexting Case. Says He Has ‘Sickness’
A tearful Anthony Weiner admitted on Friday to transferring obscene material in the case of his sex-msssaging scandal with an underage teen. The embattled former Democratic congressman entered a guilty plea at a Manhattan federal court. He pled guilty to one charge of transferring obscene material to a minor. “I am guilty, your honor,” Weiner…
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Slideshows New York Craft Bourbons
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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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