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Opinion What New York’s Subway Lines Taught Me About Jewish Identity
I confess that I was taken aback by the popularity of my last piece for the Forward, In that article, I used some seat-of-the-pants social science and mapping to figure out which line of the New York City Subway served the greatest number of Jews — which turned out to be the “F.” I had…
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Fast Forward New York Mayor Bill de Blasio Gets Mixed Response From Syrian Jews on Refugees
The mayor or New York reportedly drew some criticism from Syrian Jews for comparing Muslim refugees fleeing their homeland with Jews fleeing the Holocaust. Bill de Blasio received warm applause as he vowed to keep New York Jews safe as terror fears are heightened but there were ripples of disapproval when he brought up the…
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Fast Forward Sheldon Silver Found Guilty on All Counts in $4M Bribery Trial
Sheldon Silver, one of New York state’s most powerful politicians for two decades, was convicted on Monday of abusing his office to collect as much as $4 million in illegal bribes and kickbacks. A federal jury in Manhattan found Silver, 71, guilty of all seven counts he faced, including fraud, extortion and money laundering, following…
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News Why Were 2 Homeless Men Found Dead at Brooklyn Jewish Elementary School?
Just after midnight at an Orthodox Jewish elementary school in Brooklyn, Elliott Gordon found a man turning blue on the floor of the chapel. Gordon had been sitting in a filthy dormitory room upstairs when he heard a voice in the hallway say that a man named Moshe had collapsed. It was Gordon’s first night…
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Fast Forward New York City Will Fund Security Guards at Jewish Schools
New York City will fund security guards for Jewish, Catholic and Muslim students in non-public schools. The agreement, which will provide each non-public school with an additional security guard, was reached by Mayor Bill de Blasio and New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito. The agreement caps more than two years of grassroots advocacy by…
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Fast Forward Willie Rapfogel Moved to Halfway House in Manhattan
William Rapfogel, who was sentenced last year to 3 1/3 years to 10 years in prison for stealing $9 million from the Jewish nonprofit he headed, has been transferred to a minimum-security work release prison in Manhattan. Rapfogel, the longtime CEO of New York’s Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, was transferred Tuesday from a medium-security…
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Fast Forward New York Ex-Cop Reveals Shocking Anti-Semitic Tapes
An ex-police officer assigned to the World Trade Center says he was barraged with anti-Semitic comments on a daily basis — and he has the tapes to prove it. David Attali, an Israeli Jew, told WABC in New York City that the constant harassment took its toll. “Every day when I would go to work,…
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Fast Forward Upstate New York Mayor Vowed To Reject Jewish Building Applications
A mayor in suburban New York’s Rockland County secretly pledged to reject all building permit applications by Jewish developers, according to a newspaper report. The mayor, Demeza Delhomme of Spring Valley, was secretly recorded in March saying he would vote against all Jewish-submitted building permits but would accept permits by Haitians, the Journal News reported….
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Fast Forward Why the Antisemitism Awareness Act now has a religious liberty clause to protect ‘Jews killed Jesus’ statements
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Fast Forward The invitation said, ‘No Jews.’ The response from campus officials, at least, was real.
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Opinion A Holocaust perpetrator was just celebrated on US soil. I think I know why no one objected.
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