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Fast Forward #BringBackOurBoys Billboard Comes to Times Square
An advertisement calling for the return of three kidnapped Israeli teens is running on a digital billboard in Times Square. “On June 12th, 2014, three teenage boys were kidnapped in Israel, one of them an American citizen,” reads the 40-foot-by-40-foot ad purchased by the Young Israel of the West Side, an Orthodox synagogue in Manhattan….
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Fast Forward Eli Wallach, Versatile Hollywood Star, Dies at 98
(Reuters) — Eli Wallach, an early practitioner of method acting who made a lasting impression as the scuzzy bandit Tuco in “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”, died on Tuesday at the age of 98, the New York Times reported. Wallach appeared on the big screen well into his 90s in Roman Polanski’s “The…
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News Syracuse Jews Stunned by Doctor’s Arrest in Wife’s Murder
The Jewish community of Syracuse, New York, was stunned by the news that Robert Neulander, a prominent obstetrician, was charged with the 2012 murder of his wife, Leslie Neulander. Despite reports that police were eyeing Robert Neulander in the death, many local leaders called his June 23 arrest a major shock, especially given his activism…
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Fast Forward Orthodox ‘Chained Wife’ Launches Social Media Battle for ‘Get’ Religious Divorce
An Orthodox Jewish woman in New York has launched a campaign on social media to force her husband to give her a religious divorce. Friends of Rivky Stein, 24, of Brooklyn, launched a Facebook page earlier this month calling on her common-law husband, Yoel Weiss, 31, to grant her the get. Stein married Weiss in…
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Fast Forward Prominent Syracuse Doctor Robert Neulander Charged in 2012 Murder of Wife
A prominent physician active in the Syracuse, N.Y., Jewish community was indicted for the September 2012 murder of his wife. Robert Neulander, 62, was indicted on charges of second-degree murder and tampering with physical evidence, Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick said at a news conference Monday. Neulander, an obstetrician who has delivered thousands of…
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Life When Fanny Brice Made the Follies
Forward Association Fanny Brice (born Fania Borach) of Forsyth Street, and later on, further uptown and even New Jersey, opened her career-making act as the Yiddish “Salome” with this line: “I’ve been a bad woman, but such good company, Nu?” Originally set up for her acclaimed Yiddish-accented comedy act by songwriter Irving Berlin, Brice caught…
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News New York’s Andrew Cuomo Faces Unexpected Opposition From Ultra-Orthodox
As New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo steams toward what’s expected to be an easy re-election this fall, he may face opposition from an unexpected corner. Cuomo has long sought to cultivate support among the state’s powerful ultra-Orthodox community. But a series of recent moves has threatened that relationship, culminating in Cuomo’s early June decision…
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Fast Forward Rabbi Rejects Apology From Bleach-Tossing Attacker
A rabbi who advocates against child sex abusers refused to accept an apology from a Hasidic man, the son of an accused abuser, who threw bleach in the rabbis’s face. Rabbi Nuchem Rosenberg told Brooklyn state Supreme Court Judge Joseph Gubbay, who asked Meilech Schnitzler to make the apology in court on Wednesday, that he…
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