Joshua Needelman
@JoshNeedelman
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Reporter @Newsday covering the Town of North Hempstead. Former @nytimes reporting fellow. Product of @thedbk. Green tea guy. [email protected]
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“The thing I miss most is the people.” I spoke to Fernando Mejia, a popular bagel shop manager on Long Island who was pulled from his car by ICE agents in June. Mejia is now back in El Salvador after five months in detention camps. He does not have a criminal record.
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"Satchidananda used to always laughingly say that yoga institutes were asylums, and we were all the inmates. People would go 'Ha ha ha! That's so funny Swamiji. But it was true." What happens when your guru is named an abuser? My latest @DefectorMedia. https://t.co/7EzZg1LIxT
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A yoga empire struggles to reckon with its past after its guru is named as an abuser.
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"He took advantage of many of his female students' innocence and adoration and continually mimicked the life of a celibate monk while living differently." Swami Satchidananda was a spirituality rock star in the 70s and 80s. Then he was named an abuser: https://t.co/jonBNFgfRg
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A yoga empire struggles to reckon with its past after its guru is named as an abuser.
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"He took advantage of many of his female students' innocence and adoration and continually mimicked the life of a celibate monk while living differently." Swami Satchidananda was a spirituality rock star in the 70s and 80s. Then he was named an abuser: https://t.co/jonBNFgfRg
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A yoga empire struggles to reckon with its past after its guru is named as an abuser.
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What the guru left behind:
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Swami Satchidananda, the "Woodstock guru," was a spirituality rock star in the second half of the 20th century. Twenty years after his death, the community he left behind is grappling with accusations of sexual assault against him: https://t.co/jonBNFgfRg
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A yoga empire struggles to reckon with its past after its guru is named as an abuser.
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Defector's investigation casts a light on one yoga community—but almost surely not the only yoga community— that, all these years following #MeToo, still struggles with a basic question: What do you do when your guru is named as an abuser?
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A yoga empire struggles to reckon with its past after its guru is named as an abuser.
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Swami Satchidananda, the "Woodstock guru," was a spirituality rock star in the second half of the 20th century. Twenty years after his death, the community he left behind is grappling with accusations of sexual assault against him: https://t.co/jonBNFgfRg
defector.com
A yoga empire struggles to reckon with its past after its guru is named as an abuser.
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"Satchidananda used to always laughingly say that yoga institutes were asylums, and we were all the inmates. People would go 'Ha ha ha! That's so funny Swamiji. But it was true." What happens when your guru is named an abuser? My latest @DefectorMedia. https://t.co/7EzZg1LIxT
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MIKAL BRIDGES STEAL TO SEAL GAME 1 FOR THE KNICKS!! 20-POINT COMEBACK COMPLETE ✅
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A renovation of Bow Tie Cinemas of Port Washington uncovered history that had been hiding for decades. A cool read by @JoshNeedelman for @Newsday
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The findings include carved columns, original paintings, an orchestra pit and a ceiling medallion.
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North Hempstead is the lone town on Long Island without a cat shelter, leaving activists to care for the area's stray cat population. One woman feeds cats behinds a Roslyn shopping center twice a day. She named them Precious and Rascal. https://t.co/b67ATw8Eug
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North Hempstead is one of three Long Island towns that do not have a cat shelter or a contract with a shelter that accepts cats.
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BALLGAME OVER! AMERICAN LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES OVER! YANKEES WIN! THEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE YANKEES WIN! The Yankees are going NUTS on the field! It's a group hug!
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"This is the last landmark in Malverne." On a beloved movie theater's final act: https://t.co/buUkAt38V2
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The Malverne Cinema & Art Center has closed for good in its current incarnation.
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Still the wackest display I’ve seen from a star player ever:
SNY sources: Knicks center Mitchell Robinson will not be ready for the start of the regular season. Depending on rehab process, December/January is a target for Robinson’s return, per sources. Robinson is recovering from offseason ankle surgery. Knicks and Robinson do not want to
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Back in March, @JoshNeedelman wrote about the NYC teens who break into train yards and try to take our subways for a spin. In light of the recent news of 2 teens arrested for joyriding & crashing an empty subway train, we're giving the story another look.
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Rail fans who have moved from MTA obsession to breaking and entering.
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All the homies are over fantasy football but no one wants to admit it
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For the record, I did not “track down” Stephen A at a family barbecue to ask about politics! I approached a group of people and he just randomly appeared, and then HE agreed to talk. Next time give me a call. It’s called journalism.
Stephen A. Smith was asked about Kamala Harris and gave us a photo worthy of the Louvre
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