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Former Intern of One-Time N.Y. City Council Speaker Arrested for Brooklyn Shul Vandalism
Three Jewish Pedestrians Injured in Brooklyn Hit-And-Run, Police Say It’s Not a Hate Crime
Brooklyn pool can keep women-only swim times
Women-only swimming hours will be allowed to continue at a public pool in a heavily Orthodox neighborhood of Brooklyn.
4 pro-Israel NY food co-op members suspended for disrupting 2015 BDS presentation
A popular Brooklyn cooperative grocery store that has been fighting about Israel boycott efforts for eight years reportedly suspended four pro-Israel members for interrupting a meeting more than a year ago.
Smashed car window covers 6-year-old in glass, may be hate crime
A teenage boy hurled a rock into the car of an Orthodox Jewish woman in Brooklyn, shattering the back window and covering her 6-year-old child in glass.
Section 8 vouchers disproportionately go to Brooklyn’s Chasidic Jews, report charges
Chasidic Jews in Brooklyn benefit disproportionately from Section 8 housing vouchers, even as other impoverished residents have difficulty obtaining the federal housing subsidy, according to a new report.
11-year-old charged in bus blaze outside Crown Heights Jewish girls’ school
An 11-year-old boy was charged Monday with setting fire to a school bus outside a Jewish school in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn.