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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.

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

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.

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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