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The 36th Street subway station where 10 people were shot and wounded during Tuesday morning’s commute is a place I pass through nearly every day. It is one stop from the Orthodox neighborhood of Borough Park, where I live, and on my commute to Lower Manhattan I often switch at that station from the D…
A Jewish woman suffered apparent facial injuries after allegedly being attacked by a woman screaming anti-Semitic epithets on the New York City subway. Lihi Aharon, who is from Israel, recorded a video recounting her experience, which included video she took of her alleged assailant apparently being detained by police while yelling anti-Semitic abuse. Aharon claimed…
A black woman who was filmed going on a rant against a Jewish man aboard a New York subway car said she regrets dropping f-bombs — and nothing else. Shauntaye King, who last week berated Yossi Wolfe over his Jewish identity, said she erupted because he and other riders would not give another black woman…
A black woman unleashed an angry rant against an observant Jewish man on a Bronx subway train that has gone viral with more than 118,000 views on Twitter. The vitriolic straphanger went off for nearly two minutes about racism and discrimination which she blamed on Jews, the New York Post reported. “I’m schooling your a–-,”…
(JTA) — The suspect in a pipe bomb attack on New York’s Port Authority Bus Terminal said he was motivated by Israeli actions in Gaza, CNN reported. Akayed Ullah spoke with authorities at Bellevue Hospital, where he was taken after the bomb went off prematurely. He was the sole casualty in the attack when his homemade…
Disgraced Subway pitchman Jared Fogle tried to get a judge to overturn his conviction for child pornography by claiming to have no nationality, Courthouse News reported. In a motion filed by a fellow inmate at a prison in Colorado, Fogel claimed that the court had no jurisdiction over him because he was a “sovereign citizen”…
Craig Lenti, of Astoria, Queens, was riding the subway last week when he thought he saw a swastika necklace around one man’s neck. He double- and then triple-checked the man’s pendant: Yes, it was a real swastika necklace. “I was disgusted, but I couldn’t believe what I saw, so I walked back and forth past…
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced on Monday that Elon Musk, the inventor and founder of SpaceX, is interested in bidding on a project to link downtown Chicago to O’Hare airport with a high-speed underground train. Musk and his engineers at his drilling firm, The Boring Company, may be going to Chicago soon to explore possibilities…
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