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‘An Attack Against All Jews Is an Attack Against all New Yorkers’ — Thousands March in Solidarity in NYC

Solidarity march on Brooklyn bridge. Madeleine Kornfeld/Bklyner.Thousands of people marched in solidarity on Sunday, January 5, to protest anti-Semitism and demonstrate support for Jewish neighbors affected by recent incidents of anti-Semitic violence. A sea of winter hats, hoods, and yarmulkes flooded Foley Square around 11 a.m. in

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Another Hate Crime In Williamsburg?

WILLIAMSBURG – The NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating a crime that took place last week where two men slapped Shtreimels off the heads of two Jewish men. On Friday, September 20 at around 9 p.m., two Hasidic men were standing at the corner of South 10th Street and

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Police Injuries As Thousands Take To Boro Park Streets To Mourn Grand Rabbi

BORO PARK — Police struggled to control thousands of mourners on Tuesday who came out to funeral services to honor a Grand Rebbe. Funeral procession of The Skulener Rebbe, Rabbi Yisroel Avrohom Portugal (Photo: Todd Maisel)During the funeral procession at 58th and 14th Avenue, two on-duty police officers went to

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Rabbi Yisroel ‘Skulen Rebbe’ Dies at 95

BORO PARK — Thousands of mourners will descend upon Borough Park to honor The Skulener Rebbe, Rabbi Yisroel Avrohom Portugal who died Monday. He was 95. The Skulener Rebbe, Rabbi Yisroel Avrohom Portugal at Masbia in Boro Park. (Photo: Compliments of Masbia)The Rebbe died at John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore,

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Borough Park Sees Huge Increase In Shigella Cases

(source: wikipedia.org)Cases of the infectious disease Shigellosis, or Shigella, have increased by as much as 11-fold in the Orthodox Jewish communities of Borough Park and Williamsburg, according to the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH). There are typically 200-300 cases of the diarrheal disease