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FBI investigating gifts from Orthodox Jewish businessmen to 20 NY cops

The police officers may have received gifts and foreign trips, including to Israel and the Caribbean, from the two politically active Brooklyn businessmen in return for favors.

Official probe of NY yeshivas stalled by politics, group charges

An advocacy group seeking improved secular education in haredi schools accused the de Blasio administration of delaying an investigation out of fear that it would politically harm the mayor.

Lena Dunham to get her own Random House imprint

Dunham and writing partner Jenni Konner signed on to expand their Lenny newsletter into a line of books featuring "exciting, emerging voices," the publisher said.