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Breaking News Mourners Throng Funeral of 7 Orthodox Kids Killed in Brooklyn Shabbat Fire
The funeral of seven Orthodox Jewish children who perished in one of New York’s deadliest fires in years drew a sea of mourners on Sunday to a Brooklyn neighborhood where the blaze has raised concerns about the safety of Sabbath cooking practices. The Brooklyn father who lost seven of his eight children in the home…
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Breaking News FEGS Files for Bankruptcy Over Fiscal Collapse
FEGS, the giant Jewish social service agency, filed for bankruptcy in the Eastern District of New York on March 18, the latest step in the months-long collapse of the massive charity. The Chapter 11 filing comes nearly two months after FEGS admitted it would close amid mounting financial problems. Concurrent with the filing, FEGS announced…
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Breaking News Jewish Charity FEGS Will File For Bankruptcy
The Jewish social services behemoth FEGS Health & Human Services will soon file for bankruptcy, the Forward has learned. That filling could come as early as March 18, according to someone with knowledge of the decision, who asked not to be named because of the confidential nature of the process. FEGS did not respond to…
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Breaking News Real Estate Mogul Robert Durst Arrested in Mystery Killing of Wife
(Reuters) — Robert Durst, scion of one of New York’s largest real estate empires, has been arrested in New Orleans on a murder warrant issued by Los Angeles County, the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office said. Durst, born in 1943, is known for life twists that led him to be questioned but not charged in the mysterious…
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Breaking News Hasidim in Bloomingburg, New York Sue for Right to Vote
NEW YORK (JTA) – Hasidic residents of an upstate New York village are suing the county’s board of elections to have their voting rights restored. More than two dozen residents of Bloomingburg filed a federal lawsuit on Monday against the Sullivan County Board of Elections alleging that the board was attempting to disenfranchise them. The…
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Breaking News New York Delays Deal on Circumcision Rite
A proposal to cancel a requirement for signed parental consent for a controversial circumcision rite set to be presented to the New York Board of Health was postponed. City officials said Monday that the metzitzah b’peh plan would be presented to the Board of Health in June and voted on at the next meeting, The…
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Breaking News New York Delays Deal on Circumcision RIte
A proposal to cancel a requirement for signed parental consent for a controversial circumcision rite set to be presented to the New York Board of Health was postponed. City officials said Monday that the metzitzah b’peh plan would be presented to the Board of Health in June and voted on at the next meeting, The…
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Breaking News Met Council Insurance Broker Gets 18 Months for $9M Fraud
Another co-conspirator in the scheme that stole approximately $9 million from New York’s Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty was sentenced to prison. Joseph Ross, the former insurance broker for the nonprofit social service group, was sentenced to 18 months in jail, New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli announced Monday in…
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