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Jackie Hajdenberg

Jackie Hajdenberg

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Silver Moon Bakery, NYC spot known for its challah, faces eviction over rent dispute

Silver Moon Bakery, NYC spot known for its challah, faces eviction over rent dispute

The popular Morningside Heights spot is famous for its Jewish confections, but the landlord alleges the business has overstayed its lease and owes...

17.01.2025 30

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Jackie Hajdenberg

How a Jewish teen’s description of New York life in 1945 is going viral on TikTok

New York Jewish Week — On an April Saturday in 1945, a Jewish teen living in East New York named Charlotte Buchsbaum washed her hair with lemon....

19.12.2024 5

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Jackie Hajdenberg

Israel or abortion rights: College-age US Orthodox women face tough call at ballot box

Torn between two candidates with diametrically opposed value systems – and sharing some of each – young female voters debate whether support for...

03.11.2024 5

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Jackie Hajdenberg

New York synagogue reveals sexual assault allegation against renowned late rabbi

Marshall T. Meyer led Upper West Side’s B’nai Jeshurun from 1985 to 1993; synagogue says allegations ‘credible,’ removing his name from...

01.11.2024 1

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Jackie Hajdenberg

FBI says it’s probing leak of US intel on Israel’s attack plans for Iran

White House says still unclear if classified documents were intentionally leaked or hacked, no signs additional classified information has made its...

23.10.2024 20

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Jewish members of New York co-op health food store file complaint over antisemitism

Jewish and Israeli members of Brooklyn’s Park Slope Food Coop allege anti-Jewish, anti-Israel harassment commonplace, say no action taken against...

23.10.2024 8

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In new take on tradition, UK group urges families to ‘save seat in sukkah’ for hostages

Board of Deputies of British Jews’ initiative hearkens back to the age-old Jewish practice of inviting symbolic guests to temporary huts built for...

17.10.2024 3

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Jackie Hajdenberg

Palestinian cafe in California offers ‘Sweet Sinwar’ drink for October 7 anniversary

New menu at Oakland eatery also features ‘iced in tea fada’ celebrating ‘intifada’, inverted red triangles; Jewish groups decry glorification...

12.10.2024 2

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Jackie Hajdenberg

Police, FBI probing second antisemitic assault at University of Pittsburgh in weeks

Student tells police he was attacked, physically and verbally, by a group of six to eight men after they noticed his Star of David necklace

01.10.2024 3

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Jackie Hajdenberg

Lufthansa, Air France halt flights to Israel as Hezbollah vows to avenge pager blasts

German airline suspends operations to Tehran while French national carrier pauses service to Beirut in wake of explosions that Lebanese terror...

18.09.2024 3

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23andMe agrees to $30m settlement over data breach targeting Jewish and Chinese users

Genetic testing company settles with plaintiffs over breach that was revealed when hacker published link to database labeled ‘ashkenazi DNA Data...

18.09.2024 4

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Jackie Hajdenberg

American Jew faces execution in DR Congo for taking part in foiled coup

Photo of Benjamin Zalman-Polun with failed coup leader Christian Malanga at Tel Aviv ‘spy shop’ prompts conspiracy theories he was secret agent...

17.09.2024 7

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Boston man suffering from severe burns after self-immolating outside Israeli consulate

Matt Nelson had warned in a video uploaded to YouTube ahead of time that he was going to engage in an ‘extreme act of protest’ due to ‘the...

17.09.2024 4

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Jackie Hajdenberg

WHO hails success of polio 1st phase vaccination campaign in Gaza

Aided by localized ‘humanitarian pauses’ in fighting, effort aims to vaccinate more than 640,000 children in the Strip

05.09.2024 2

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Jackie Hajdenberg

Temple University investigating pro-Palestinian march at campus Hillel

Demonstrations are part of a resurgence in campus protests as students return to school

31.08.2024 6

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Jackie Hajdenberg

Oregon man charged with making bomb threats against New York Jewish hospitals

Domagoj Patkovic, 31, arrested Tuesday, made multiple hoax calls to Jewish institutions and 911 operators that were broadcast live on Discord

21.08.2024 3

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Jackie Hajdenberg

After 7-year legal battle, Uganda Jewish man finally gets Israeli citizenship

Interior Ministry approves the bid of Yosef Kibita from the Abayudaya community after four conversions and years of roadblocks dating back to 2018

17.08.2024 3

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Jackie Hajdenberg

After Columbia president resigns, Jewish students say their goal is a ‘normal year’

Many students ambivalent over resignation of Minouche Shafik following months of anti-Israel unrest on campus, but seek more clarity from...

16.08.2024 1

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Jackie Hajdenberg

Teenage girl goes through entire Talmud in 2.5 years, breaking gender and speed norms

Amid an upswell of women in a typically male pursuit, Elke Bentley took advantage of newly available resources and a changing landscape to achieve...

29.07.2024 20

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Another Nazi-looted Schiele painting returns to heirs of its original owner

Unlike museums that have fought in court to retain art stolen by Third Reich, Papanek family, who also survived Nazis, were happy to return...

27.07.2024 10

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Jackie Hajdenberg

After 100-mile hike, US Jewish Boy Scouts perform CPR to save passenger on their plane

Teens, their adviser and their nurse practitioner help save life of elderly man who went into cardiac arrest: ‘As pikuach nefesh as it gets’

23.07.2024 2

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Jackie Hajdenberg

Adidas ‘revising’ campaign for 1972 Munich Olympics shoe that features Bella Hadid

Protests after company picks model with ‘history of spreading antisemitism, calling for violence’ to promote shoe design from games where 11...

19.07.2024 20

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Jackie Hajdenberg