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News Sudden Collapse of FEGS Raises Disturbing Questions About Jewish Social Service System
The collapse of one of the largest Jewish charities in the United States is raising concerns about the future of the Jewish social service ecosystem. The massive New York-based social service charity known as FEGS said on January 30 that it would shut down, just seven weeks after it revealed a stunning, previously undetected $19.4…
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Fast Forward New York Woman Sues Kuwait Airlines Over Ban on Israeli Passengers
An Israeli woman who has lived in the United States for the last 15 years was barred from boarding a Kuwait Airways flight in New York because of her Israeli citizenship. Iris Eliazarov, 26, who came to the United States when she was 11 and has a Green Card, was barred from the Nov. 1…
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Fast Forward Funerals Held 2 Hours Apart for Jewish Train Tragedy Victims
Final farewells for two of the 6 victims of this week’s fiery New York commuter train accident will be held two hours apart this morning, including the mother of three who was behind the wheel of the SUV the train slammed into on Tuesday night. Friends and loved ones of Ellen Brody, 49, and Eric…
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News Can Ex-Orthodox Be Sold on Modern Orthodoxy?
In March 2013, Jewish educator and activist Allison Josephs, now 34, went to lecture at Rockland Community College about the journey to observance she took when she was a teenager. With her Jew in the City blog and her YouTube presence, Josephs, who was raised Conservative, has become a self-appointed spokeswoman for Modern Orthodox Judaism,…
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Fast Forward Jewish End-of-Life Activists Sue New York Over Law Barring Doctor-Aided Suicide
A group of doctors and patients, some terminally ill, on Wednesday asked a New York court to rule that doctor-assisted suicide is not against state law. The lawsuit, filed against New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman in Manhattan Supreme Court, claimed that a New York law making it a crime to cause or aid another…
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Fast Forward Staten Island Jewish Cemetery Head Pleads Guilty To Embezzling $1.9M
The one-time acting president of a nonprofit Staten Island Jewish cemetery pleaded guilty to embezzling nearly $2 million. Timothy Griffin, formerly the outside counsel of United Hebrew Cemetery, will be sentenced to 3 to 9 years in prison, New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced Wednesday. Griffin became acting president after its previous president…
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Fast Forward Trial Eyes Etan Patz’s Heartbreaking Last Day
Prosecutors in the trial of a former deli worker accused of kidnapping and murdering a 6-year-old boy in New York City in 1979 laid out details in court on Tuesday of the last day the child was seen alive. Pedro Hernandez, 54, faces charges of kidnapping and murdering Etan Patz in a case that ignited…
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News Judy Rapfogel Is Woman in the Middle of Two N.Y. Scandals
One September night in 1997, Judy Rapfogel threw a party. Press reports had just declared her the winner in a tight Democratic primary race to represent Manhattan’s Lower East Side in the New York City Council, effectively making the seat hers in the heavily Democratic town. Her boss, the new State Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver,…
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