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4 unusual facts about Eliyahu Federman


Eliyahu Federman

In 2010 the New York Times published a letter that Federman wrote challenging a gag order issued by the Beth Din in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights section, which prohibited members of the Lubavitcher community from speaking with the police or media.

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Federman is also the nephew of the famous American comedian, actor, author, and comedy writer Wayne Federman.

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In 2011, the New York Times chronicled Federman's challenge of the male-only voting policy of a social service agency in the Jewish Brooklyn Crown Heights Community - where he argued that the policy may be unconstitutional and has no basis in Jewish law.

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Federman argued in an Op-Ed that an educational seminar teaching the African-American and Jewish communities about their rights and responsibilities when stopped, questioned, ticketed or searched by the police - would enhance police-community relations in Crown Heights.



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