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Opinion Why I Spent Yom Kippur Serving Up Pork Chops in Brooklyn
I spent Yom Kippur this year dipping pork chops in olive oil, preparing lunch for the clients of St. John’s Bread and Life, an amazing anti-poverty organization in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. It marked a significant transformation from my upbringing: I grew up in one of the few religious households in a Conservative synagogue in Hamilton, Ontario,…
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News NYC Urges Citizens to Register and “Nosh the Vote” Before Yom Kippur Fast
As Jews in New York today got ready to start their Yom Kippur fast at sundown, the city offered them one more opportunity to chow down — and also to register to vote. As part of the “Nosh the Vote” program, a dozen food trucks and street carts across the five boroughs today distributed voter…
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Fast Forward Cemetery in Upstate New York Vandalized With Anti-Semitic Graffiti
— A Jewish cemetery in New York State’s Orange County was vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti. The outer wall of the Jewish cemetery in the Town of Warwick, about 90 minutes north of Manhattan, was covered in black spray painted swastikas and the words “Heil Hitler” and “SS,” the Times Herald-Record reported Sunday. The vandalism had…
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Fast Forward Met Faces Suit by Jewish Family Over ‘Looted’ Picasso Masterpiece
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan was sued on Friday for the return of a Pablo Picasso masterpiece allegedly sold under duress in 1938 because of Nazi and Fascist persecution in Europe. A complaint was filed in Manhattan federal court by the great-grandniece of Paul Leffmann, a Jewish industrialist from Germany who once owned…
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Fast Forward Swastika Carved in Seat of New York Commuter Train
— A swastika carved into a seat on the Long Island Rail Road in New York captured the attention of a commuter, who took a photo of the offending symbol and tweeted it. “This is a new one @LIRR swastika carved into seat in car 7170 511 train to FR. This goes way beyond poor…
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Opinion Was New York Bombing a Dry Run for United Nations Attack?
On the surface, the quick arrest of a suspect in the weekend bomb wave in New York and New Jersey might look like it’s brought some closure to the frightening series of events. In fact, though, the arrest raises as many questions as it settles. The same is true of the tactics of law enforcement…
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Opinion The Conclusions We Jump to After the New York Explosion
Maybe it was nothing. Maybe we’re over-anxious now, like the travelers who fled JFK when it was all a false alarm. Probably not, but maybe. Maybe it was pranksters, or low-level wannabes. The devices were crude, the locations almost random. Whoever did this, maybe they read about terrorism and wanted to take part themselves. Luckily…
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Fast Forward New York City Council Votes 40-4 for Anti-BDS Resolution
— The New York City Council approved a nonbinding resolution to condemn the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel. The resolution, which passed Wednesday in a 40-4 vote with six abstentions, condemns “all efforts to delegitimize the State of Israel and the global movement to boycott, divest from, and sanction the people of Israel.”…
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