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Breaking News ADL: Killing of N.Y. Police Officers ‘Heinous, Senseless, Shocking’
The Anti-Defamation League called the killing of two New York Police Department officers a “heinous, senseless and shocking assault.” The officers, Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos, were shot in the head through the window of their patrol car in Brooklyn on Saturday afternoon. Shortly before the killings, the gunman, identified as Ismaaiyl Brinsley, 28, threatened…
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News Mystery Deepens as FEGS Stonewalls Over $19M Torrent of Red Ink
Days after one of the largest Jewish social service not-for-profits in the country announced it had unexpectedly lost $19.4 million, the mystery surrounding the catastrophic shortfall is deepening. FEGS, a New York City-based social service organization, will not say when or how it learned of the $19.4 million loss. Nor will FEGS do more than…
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News FEGS Slashes Programs After Revealing Stunning $20M Loss
The massive New York Jewish social service agency FEGS will cut programs after discovering it lost a startling $19 million in the 2014 fiscal year, the Forward has learned. The organization abruptly dropped its new CEO on the day it disclosed the loss to staff. FEGS revealed the $19 million loss in an all-staff email…
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Breaking News Stabbed Chabad Rabbinic Student Improves
The condition of the Israeli rabbinical student who was stabbed at Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters in Brooklyn was upgraded. Levi Rosenblatt, 22, who was stabbed in the neck and head on Tuesday while praying, was upgraded from critical to serious but stable condition, though he remains confused about why he is in the hospital, the New York…
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News Will Chabad Rethink Open Door Policy After ‘I Will Kill Jews’ Attack?
(Haaretz) — The large synagogue at the heart of the international Lubavitch movement, called 770 after its address on Eastern Parkway, is busy around the clock, with people coming and going to pray and study religious texts. No one was prepared for what happened late Monday night, when a visibly agitated man walked in, reportedly yelled…
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Breaking News Security Beefed Up After Fatal Police Shooting of ‘Kill the Jew’ Attacker at Chabad
(Reuters) — New York police fatally shot a man armed with a knife on Tuesday after he stabbed a rabbinical student from Israel in a Brooklyn synagogue, and authorities quickly stepped up security at Jewish houses of worship around the city, police said. The suspect, Calvin Peters, 49, who has a history of mental illness,…
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Breaking News ‘I Will Kill Jews’ Attacker Shot Dead by Police at Chabad Headquarters in Brooklyn
A knife-wielding man shouting ‘I will kill the Jew’ was shot and killed by police after he allegedly stabbed an Israeli rabbinic student inside the world headquarters of Chabad in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Calvin Peters, 51, was shot in the stomach by police after a confrontation inside 770 Eastern Parkway, where he set upon a…
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Breaking News New York Lawman Eric Schneiderman Seeks Power To Probe Police Killings
‘ New York State’s top prosecutor on Monday sought the power to probe all police killings of unarmed civilians in his state, following sometimes violent U.S. protests over two grand juries’ moves to clear officers in the deaths of unarmed black men. The morning after angry crowds hurled objects at police who responded with tear…
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