Brooklyn grocer’s boycott of Israeli products spurs celebration and talk of lawsuits
Legal watchdog calls Park Slope Food Coop ban “discriminatory” as the international movement to boycott Israel pursues gains
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Fast Forward Jewish members of Park Slope Food Coop file state complaint alleging antisemitic, anti-Israel harassment
The complaint represents a bid for government intervention in the store’s ongoing infighting
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Looking Forward When anti-Zionists take over your Hebrew school
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Culture The war comes to the Park Slope Food Coop — could it also provide the blueprint for peace?
This isn't the cooperatively-owned grocery's first schism over Israel and BDS
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Fast Forward Backpack Set On Fire On Steps Of Brooklyn Synagogue Over Yom Kippur
Updated 1:45 p.m. (JTA) — A backpack was set alight and left on the steps of a Jewish center in Brooklyn on Yom Kippur. The burning backpack on the steps of the Park Slope Jewish Center was reported at 1 a.m. on Wednesday, the New York Post reported. The New York City Fire Department extinguished…
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News Brad Lander Is Face Of Anti-Trump Resistance — And Keeps Brooklyn Orthodox Happy Too
Two hours before half the liberal Jews in Brooklyn were set to turn up at a local synagogue to learn how to resist President Trump, things were feeling a bit precarious at the offices of the city councilman who was organizing the whole thing. “Did you hear anything?” Rachel Goodman asked. Goodman is chief of…
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News 1,200 Anti-Trump Activists Pack Park Slope Synagogue
In a packed synagogue in Park Slope, Brooklyn Monday night, activists gathered to organize against Donald Trump. The sanctuary of the 1,200-seat Congregation Beth Elohim was packed; a long line of attendees snaked down the front steps and around the corner. “The level of showing up that people are doing… It’s powerful and it feels…
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News PHOTOS: Brooklyn Synagogue Hosts Jammed Meeting of Anti-Trump Activists
In a packed synagogue in Park Slope, Brooklyn Monday night, activists gathered to organize against Donald Trump. For more on the event, read our coverage here. The crowd filled the 1,200 seat sanctuary of Congregation Beth Elohim. Outside, the line ran down the street. Rabbi Rachel Timoner, spiritual leader of Beth Elohim, addressed the crowd….
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