admin | January 3, 2020
One of the many small pleasures I took from Uncut Gems comes fairly early in the movie, when Adam Sandler receives delivery of the movies titular stone, a large black opal harvested from Ethiopia. Sandler, who plays Howard Ratner, the perpetually overleveraged Manhattan diamond dealer who dominates nearly every frame of the 135-minute movie, has hinted at the stones existence and its accompanying financial windfall since we first encountered him on a colonoscopy table at the movies open
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admin | January 3, 2020
The Jewish community has been knocked on its heels from the relentless string of antisemitic assaults we have seen in the New York/New Jersey area over the past weeks. From the tragic, hate-filled attack on the Kosher Supermarket in Jersey City, to the 10 antisemitic incidents that took place during the eight days of Hanukkah, culminating in the horrific attack in Monsey, leaving five Jews injured, two fighting for their lives, we have witnessed a serious and violent surge of antisemitism
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admin | January 2, 2020
New Years Day finds us with a lot of new people walking around. Even the people we know are strangers today. We may appear strange even to ourselves today.
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admin | January 2, 2020
Just three days before the dawn of the third decade of the 21st century, one of the worlds top newspapers published a column by one if its full-time opinion contributors arguing that one ethnic group is inherently more intelligent than others. In this case, the superior ethnic group in question was, unsurprisingly, that to which the writer belongs.
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admin | January 2, 2020
Today, the word Bauhaus evokes clearheaded, functional design with a vague whiff of revolutionary modernism. In countless ways, the relatively short-lived school gave form to the modern experience from the shapes of the letters we read to the arrangement of the cities we inhabit
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admin | January 2, 2020
Theres plenty of reasons to be excited about 2020 in New York City and they have nothing to do with the presidential election. As we close out a year and a decade, and start anew, lets take a look ahead at some of the major events, dates and anniversaries well mark this coming year. Jan
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admin | January 2, 2020
State troopers have increased patrols in Kiryas Joel and sheriff's deputies have visited the main synagogue in the Satmar Hasidic village to recommend improved security measures in the wake of deadly attacks on Hasidic Jews in Jersey City and Monsey. The synagogue tour took place on Monday, two days after five people were stabbed in a rabbi's home in Monsey, but already had been arranged after the Dec.
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admin | January 2, 2020
For Jewish people across the state, thecountry, and the world, the otherwise festive last night of Hanukkah 2019 was punctuated by solemnity and solidarity, in the wake of astabbing attack in New York on a rabbi's home during the candle-lighting to mark the2,200-year-old holiday the night before. "I'm horrified,"Rabbi-Cantor Patricia Hickman told FLORIDA TODAY Monday, "who could ever imagine that a lunatic would do that, enter a rabbi's home with a machete?" More: 5 stabbed in 'act of domestic terrorism' at Hanukkah party "We will need all the light, strength and courage we can muster to dispel the darkness that has insidiously invaded our homes and places of worship," Hickman wrote Sunday in a letter to her congregation
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admin | January 2, 2020
NEW ORLEANS There have been at least nine anti-Semitic attacks in New York in less than a week, including Saturday's stabbing spree at the home of a rabbi during a Chanukah celebration. Anti Defamation League regional director Aaron Ahlquish says there seems to be a movement towards the normalization of anti-Semitism
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admin | January 2, 2020
We are in the midst of a dangerous wave of anti-Semitism, hatred of Jewish people, and violent acts against Jewish communities. According to the Anti-Defamation League, there were 1,879 anti-Jewish acts in 2018 in the United States.
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