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Fear of taxes, or of Hasidim? 27 Aug 2013 | 05:50 pm
The school district says a proposed private school for girls would mean higher taxes for thousands.The school's developer, Shalom Lamm, says the school — to serve his proposed 396-townhouse developmen...
Toronto: Swastikas in Jewish Neighborhood 27 Aug 2013 | 07:13 am
An anti-semitic incident was reported Thursday in a neighborhood with many Jewish residents in Vaughan, a city in the York region, north of Toronto, Canada. According to Shalom Toronto, the swastikas ...
One Direction’s Harry Styles Sighted at Manhattan Kosher Restaurant Sporting Blue Knitted Kippa 27 Aug 2013 | 07:05 am
Harry Styles, star of uber-popular British boy band One Direction stopped by one of Manhattan’s most popular kosher hot-spots, Le Marais, Thursday night, much to the delight of his young female Jewish...
Tensions Build In Advance of Hasidic Pilgrimage 27 Aug 2013 | 06:59 am
Flying from Kiev to London last week, I sat next to an ultra-Orthodox American man traveling back to the U.S. after visiting Uman, Ukraine with his wife and infant son. Uman, a town located halfway be...
Richard Nixon Says Jews Should Be 'Americans First' on Last Tapes 23 Aug 2013 | 05:44 pm
President Richard Nixon is heard in the last set of his White House tapes making anti-Semitic statements in discussions with visitors to the Oval Office and by telephone. The 340 hours of tapes, whic...
Rabbi Calls Ukraine Cross 'Provocation' to Breslov Hasidic Pilgrims 22 Aug 2013 | 05:50 pm
The recent placing of a crucifix near the Uman grave of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov was an act of "clear provocation," Rabbi Yaakov Bleich, chief rabbi of Ukraine, said. "Ukraine is not a Jewish country ...
Man pleads guilty to offering $500K bribe to silence Weberman sex abuse victim 22 Aug 2013 | 12:48 am
Abraham Rubin, 48, of Wiliamsburg, Brooklyn, pleaded guilty to attempting to bribe the husband of a sex abuse victim with more than $500,000 in cash. " itemprop="associatedMedia" alt="NYC PAPERS OUT. ...
Hasidic Jews Turn Up Pressure on City to Accommodate Their Traditions 22 Aug 2013 | 12:43 am
Needing to abide by their tribe's traditions of modesty, Hasidic women want the city to post a female lifeguard during a women-only swim session at a municipal pool in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and have...
The renegade rabbi who brought Hasidic tunes to mainstream Jews 21 Aug 2013 | 05:51 pm
I had no idea that half the tunes I have heard in synagogue were written by Reb Shlomo Carlebach. As I sat clappi...
Brooklyn street named for murdered Jamaican convert 20 Aug 2013 | 09:48 pm
A New York City street was renamed for a Jamaican convert to Judaism who was shot while protecting his girlfriend during a robbery. Avenue J and Nostrand Avenue in the Midwood neighborhood of Brooklyn...
