Jewish high school students protested on Monday outside the home of the last known Nazi concentration camp guard in the U.S. The Queens, N.Y. home of Jakiw Palij, 92, was the site of signs and chants by students from the Rambam Mesivta on Long Island. “It is outrageous that a Nazi who is involved in…
(JTA) — A massive fire in Queens, New York, destroyed more than a dozen businesses, most Jewish owned. The blaze that erupted Friday evening in Kew Garden Hills required nearly 200 firefighters to bring under control. Most of the businesses were closed in the predominately Orthodox Jewish neighborhood when the fire swept through the strip…
More than four decades after his death, Holocaust survivor Ben Peres is telling his story, thanks to a collector’s discovery of his his inmate jacket from the Dachau concentration camp at a Long Island estate sale. Belonging to Ben Peres, the rare item was found last year when his wife Chaya was clearing out her…
For sale: the childhood home of president-elect Donald Trump. And since last Wednesday, the owners can expect to get a lot more money for it, as DNAinfo reports. The 5-bedroom brick & stucco Tudor is located in the affluent Jamaica neighborhood in Queens. Trump lived here until he was four years old and recalled many…
None of the Ramones were the most dedicated students, preferring to rock out than to attend classes. But come Sunday, the news site DNAInfo reported, the street in front of the place where the four original members met, Forest Hills High School, will be renamed ‘Ramones Way’ in honor of the innovative punk rock band….
An 85-year old Jewish woman was mugged near her apartment in Forest Hills, Queens, Sunday night. Barbara Kupferberg was attacked around 7 p.m. on her way back from the Forest Hills Jewish Center. She says a man approached her from behind, grabbed her bag and ran away. The mugging was first reported by the New…
Rodney Dangerfield, who got “no respect” in life, got some after death. A mural dedicated to the late marquee comic was unveiled in his Kew Gardens, Queens neighborhood. Designed by Italian artist Francesca Robicci and appearing on the back wall of an area movie theater, the mural pictures the comedian, with rumpled suit and puckered…
The Trump family consistently hid its German ancestry from customers and investors when it was building its New York real estate empire in the post-World War II era, according to an article in The New York Times. After the death of Friedrich Trump — Donald’s grandfather — the family regularly claimed that it hailed from…
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