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Betty Smith enchanted a generation of readers with ‘A Tree Grows in Brooklyn’ − even as she groused...
The Conversation via Yahoo Canada News· 5 months agoNo other 20th-century American novel did quite so much to burnish Brooklyn’s reputation. But Smith...
Hate crimes are on the rise − but the narrow legal definition makes it hard to charge and convict
The Conversation Canada via Yahoo Canada News· 7 months agoWith hate crimes, context is everything, and events outside of the United States – like the war...
NYC school officials say yeshivas run by Hasidic community fail to teach students in core subjects
Associated Press via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoEighteen private Jewish schools run by New York City's politically powerful Hasidic community deprived thousands of students the required secular education in English, math, science and social ...
Katie Holmes Delivers a Perfect Cate Blanchett Diss in Far-From-Perfect ‘The Wanderers’
The Daily Beast via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoJoan MarcusFinally, you hope, Katie Holmes has the chance to shake off the ghost of Dawson’s Creek’s...
Americans among 8 injured in bus shooting in Jerusalem
ABC News via Yahoo Canada News· 2 years agoEight people, including at least five Americans, were wounded when a gunman opened fire on a bus in...
Biggest polio threat in years sparks alarms from New York to California
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 2 years agoIn this July 18, 1962, photo, a girl in Atlanta swallows a lump of sugar coated with a dose of polio...
Brooklyn’s Crown Jewel or Soulless Mall? The Luxury Commodification of Williamsburg
WWD via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWalk into any store in Williamsburg right now and the shopkeepers know what’s coming — as do the...