A Jewish man was attacked on Shabbos afternoon in Crown Heights, Brooklyn by a black male on a bicycle. The incident occurred at 12:30 p.m., when the Jewish man was crossing New York Avenue near Union Street in the heart of Crown Heights, when the black male crossed in front of him on the bicycle.
As the black male drove by, he slapped the Jewish man in the face and said, “you dirty Jew.” The Jewish male immediately walked into the 71 Precinct in Crown Heights to report the incident.
The incident is being investigated as a hate crime and Hate Crimes task force has been notified, police said.
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The retirement of longtime New York Rep. Nita Lowey could open the door for a political newcomer with big political name — Chelsea Clinton.
“Is Chelsea Clinton going to make her move?” one New York Democrat asked shortly after learning of Lowey’s retirement.
Page Six first reported in 2016 that the former first daughter was being groomed for the 17th district seat. The district includes Rockland County and portions of Westchester, including the Chappaqua home of Bill and Hillary Clinton.
“Chelsea would be the next extension of the Clinton brand,” a source said at the time.
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A 69-year-old man was successfully resuscitated on Motzei Shabbos after he fell off a ladder in his home while building a Sukkah ahead of the upcoming holiday.

The incident took place in the town of Nitzan, located just south of Ashdod.

United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Itai Yefet, who was one of the first responders at the scene said: “When I arrived at the man’s sukkah, I found him without a pulse and not breathing. I performed CPR on the man in an attempt to resuscitate him together with other EMS personnel. We managed to get his pulse back at which point we put him onto the intensive care ambulance to be transported to the hospital. He was in serious condition at the time of transport.”

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VIENNA (AP) — Roger Bannister, 1954. Eliud Kipchoge, 2019? Like the sub-four minute mile, running a marathon in less than two hours had seemed impossible — until Saturday. But this time there’s an asterisk: Olympic champion Kipchoge performed his feat under conditions so tightly controlled to maximize his success that it won’t appear in the […]

Fox News contributor Newt Gingrich says House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is carrying out an unconstitutional effort to undo the 2016 election.
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The German man suspected of killing two people near a synagogue this week reportedly told investigators that he received approximately $800 from an anonymous online donor prior to the attack.
The German publication Der Spiegel reported Friday that the accused, Stephan Balliet, had received the money in the form of the cryptocurrency Bitcoin from an unknown person with whom he communicated on the internet, according to his defense attorney Hans-Dieter Weber.
Weber also told the publication that Balliet denied being a neo-Nazi in his interrogation by German authorities. Balliet claimed to have acted alone and made the weapons used in the attack himself from cheap materials.

The business relationship between President Donald Trump’s private lawyer Rudy Giuliani and the men charged Thursday in a campaign finance scheme is a subject of the ongoing criminal investigation being conducted by federal authorities in New York, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
The investigation became public after the FBI had to quickly move to arrest Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman before they boarded a flight out of the country from Washington Dulles Airport with one-way tickets. They have been named as witnesses in the ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Trump.

US Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY) announced on Thursday that she won’t seek re-election next year, following a three-decade-long career in Congress as a staunch supporter of the US-Israel relationship.
“As the chairwoman of the appropriations subcommittee that writes the foreign-aid bill, I have advanced record funding for women’s health and basic education, especially for girls, around the world, a strong US-Israel relationship with bipartisan support and other investments that support American interests abroad,” she said in a statement.

Ousted WeWork CEO Adam Neumann is off of Forbes‘ list of the world’s wealthiest people. The financial media company has updated Neumann’s status on Thursday, from an estimated net worth of $4.1 billion earlier this year to just $600 million.
Forbes cited WeWork’s failure to complete an initial public offering in September and Neumann’s forced resignation from the company he co-founded as the causes of Neumann’s financial nosedive.
The Israeli coworking entrepreneur has been on the list since 2016, when he had amassed an estimated personal wealth of $1.5 billion.
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