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A stretch of 13th Avenue in Borough Park will be co-named Raoul Wallenberg Way on Dec. 9. Wallenberg was a Swedish diplomat stationed in Budapest who in 1944 saved as many as 100,000 Jews from the Nazis by issuing them documents that afforded them protection from Sweden. The ceremony will be held at 50th Street […]

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Harvard University students received flyers from a fictional “Harvard’s Newest Final Club” explicitly stating that Jews should not apply but “coloreds” are welcome to do so. The flyer invited students to an introductory club event, listing three virtues: “inclusion,” with the footnote of “Jews need not apply”; “diversity,” followed by the words “Seriously, no f*ing […]

Emanuael Yegutkin, 33, the former principal of Elite High School in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, was convicted Monday morning of all 75 counts of charges that he sexually abused three boys over the course of a decade. “This sexual predator faces the remainder of his life behind bars,” said Brooklyn District Attorney Charles J. Hynes in a […]

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