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The Bedford Avenue bike lane debate at Pete’s Candy Store last night brought a standing room only crowd – unfortunately, consisting mostly of bike lane supporters. There seems to have been no truce, and from the short clip presented,…

Now it has an official name: the Great Williamsburg Bike Wars. (Although without a Wikipedia entry its status as a real war is somewhat suspect.) And tonight at 7:30 pm the debate is on at Pete’s Candy Store…

Three journalists discuss Orthodox matters at the Chulent; a former Satmar girl loses her gun and badge; KJ businessmen pump $140,000 into Gov. Patterson's coffers; and more.
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Yeshiva boys turning into druglords; a new book advises that attacks on non-Jews will "curb their evil inclination;" a $3 million lawsuit over a beard; and a tefillin bomb-scare causes an emergency landing.
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It’s Rosa Parks and the Freedom Rides all over again. Women in Israel are finally standing up and saying no to the forced segregation. A new hotline has been set up for women to report abuse on public buses,…

The Leib Tropper story simply won’t go away, and Tablet Magazine has a piece outlining the whole sordid business of Tropper’s “Cadillac Conversions” along with some of his other shady enterprises. Why do I care about all this? I…

The Chabad rabbi of Newport Beach California, Rabbi Reuven Mintz, believes that the estate of Joey Bishop, former member of the “Rat Pack,” rightfully belongs to Chabad. The girlfriend claims otherwise. The California Supreme Court decided this is one…

Well, some people are still making money the good old-fashioned way: investment fraud. But it ain’t pleasant when you get caught. Chaim Citronenbaum, a Monsey resident, will do three years in the slammer. He is also now $1,683,903 poorer,…

The massive earthquake in Haiti has caused widespread devastation, and Jewish groups have been rallying to support the relief efforts. We’re wondering when Rabbi David Niederman will announce the Satmar community’s assistance, although we won’t be holding our breath.…