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Shortly after the onset of the coronavirus pandemic last year, Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York managed to enrage much of the Jewish community with a single tweet. After witnessing a large funeral in the Orthodox neighborhood of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, last April, de Blasio warned “the Jewish community, and all communities” that police would take extreme measures to enforce social-distancing restrictions prohibiting public gatherings. Many Orthodox leaders took offense to the singling out o...

As we enter 2021, just-food continues to provide daily updates on how Covid-19 is still affecting the world's packaged food sector – and how executives see the market taking shape. related to 2 Sisters Food Group, Bakkavor, Baxters Food Group, BRF, Cargill, Fazer Group, Flowers Foods, Food and Drink Federation, Foster Farms, General Mills, Godiva, Greencore, JBS, Kellogg, Lindt & Sprüngli, Müller, Maple Leaf Foods, Nestle, Olymel, PepsiCo, Pfizer, Pilgrim's Prid...

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While the market took a direct hit this downturn, rent losses started to decelerate toward the end of 2020.

Will the Queens special election be a 2013 replay? When supporters of ranked-choice voting make their case for why the new voting system is good for Black and Latino New Yorkers, they’ll often point to a specific race: the February 2013 special election in City Council District 31 in Queens. There, a white, Orthodox Jewish candidate named Pesach Osina came within 79 votes – less than 1 percentage point – of winning a Southeast Queens district that – as of the 2010 census – was 68...

As we enter 2021, just-food continues to provide daily updates on how Covid-19 is still affecting the world's packaged food sector – and how executives see the market taking shape. related to 2 Sisters Food Group, Bakkavor, Baxters Food Group, BRF, Cargill, Flowers Foods, Food and Drink Federation, Foster Farms, General Mills, Godiva, Greencore, JBS, Kellogg, Lindt & Sprüngli, Müller, Maple Leaf Foods, Nestle, Olymel, PepsiCo, Pfizer, Pilgrim's Pride, Premium Br...

NYC Speaker Corey Johnson mulling comptroller run months after bowing out of mayor’s race Michael Gartland New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson is now mulling a run to become the city’s top fiscal watchdog — several months after bowing out of the mayor’s race due to a battle with depression. Johnson confirmed Tuesday that he’s eyeing the possibility of running for city comptroller, a post focused mainly on auditing city agencies, overseeing public pensions and r...

arrow Maya Wiley, February 2021. Seth Wenig/AP/Shutterstock Three New York City mayoral candidates expected to receive public matching funds from the New York City Campaign Finance Board on Tuesday. One did not. The news by omission that mayoral candidate Maya Wiley did not qualify for public matching funds this cycle ran counter to her campaign’s expectations after filing her disclosure statement last month. Eric Adams received $788,443 and Scott Stringer received $1,176,714. T...

Johnson confirmed Tuesday that he’s eyeing the possibility of running for city comptroller, a post focused mainly on auditing city agencies, overseeing public pensions and reviewing city contracts.

NYC mayoral candidates attend a flurry of forums but does it help voters or insiders? Michael Gartland © Provided by New York Daily News NY1 New York City mayoral debate via Zoom on Sunday, Jan. 31. Quantity or quality? Since campaigning in the New York City mayor’s race began in earnest more than a month ago, there have been dozens of online forums for the candidates to share their policy prescriptions, life perspectives and ambitions for higher office. The forums have foc...