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ARSON ATTACK AT JEWISH CENTER: Governor Kathy Hochul has directed the New York State Police Hate Crimes Task Force to offer assistance in the investigation of an arson incident at Yeshivah of Flatbush.

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INVESTIGATING DEATH OF BENSONHURST WOMAN: The New York Attorney General’s Office of Special Investigation (OSI) has opened an investigation into the October 13 death of Jamie Liang, following an encounter with an off-duty member of the NYPD.

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PROTECTING RIGHTS OF TRANSGENDER STUDENTS: New York Attorney General Letitia James is leading a coalition of 20 state attorneys general to protect transgender students’ rights.

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KOSOVO TENSIONS People stood in front of graffiti KOSOVO TENSIONS People stood in front of graffiti depicting the late Bishop Amfilohije, left, and late Patriarch Pavle in the northern, Serb-dominated, part of the ethnically divided town of Mitrovica, on Friday. Tensions between Kosovo and Serbia resumed on Wednesday after Kosovo police clashed with ethnic Serbs during an anti-smuggling operation. Kosovo, a Serbian province before it declared independence in 2008, was in a war in 1998-1999 between Serbian troops and ethnic Albanian separatists fighting for independence until a NATO air campaign pushed Serb forces away. View more photos from around the globe by clicking the link in our bio.
JEWISH POVERTY, OFTEN HIDDEN, COMMON IN BROOKLYN JEWISH POVERTY, OFTEN HIDDEN, COMMON IN BROOKLYN Brooklyn has the highest proportion of Jewish poverty in the New York metro area, with more than a quarter of borough Jews “poor or near poor.” And among the groups with a higher proportion of poverty are elderly immigrants from the former Soviet Union, elderly Holocaust survivors (more than half of the metro area’s estimated 38,000 live in Brooklyn), Hasidic and ultra-Orthodox Jews, and the disabled. Read the full story by clicking the link in our bio.
JEFFERSON STATUE FACES OUSTER FROM NEW YORK’S CI JEFFERSON STATUE FACES OUSTER FROM NEW YORK’S CITY HALL An 1833 statue of Thomas Jefferson will be taken out of New York’s City Hall in the coming days and sent to a museum, capping longstanding efforts to remove the founding father’s likeness because he owned slaves. Asked about the statue on Thursday, Mayor Bill de Blasio said he understood why Jefferson’s history as a slaveowner “profoundly bothers people, and why they find it’s something that can’t be ignored.” The statue has stood in the room where the City Council meets. Read the full story by clicking the link in our bio.
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