The Brooklyn Ink

Video – Pessach at the Appelbaums’

Christians are prepping for Easter this weekend: chocolate and eggs are on the shopping lists. Jews are already celebrating Passover, the holiday that commemorated the Jews’ flight from Egypt. The preparations of this holiday are [...]

The Ritual Burning

By Yaffi Spodek The strong smell of smoke permeated the air. In the center of a large gated yard, several men stood around a metal trash can. A short, red-haired fellow wearing a black cap [...]

Gay and Jewish in Brooklyn

by Amanda Julius Benjy Unger remembers sitting cross-legged on his therapist’s floor, waiting to be tapped on the head. Dressed in traditional Orthodox Jewish regalia, “the whole garb,” the 25 year-old was playing duck, duck, [...]

Mordechai’s ride

Here in Brooklyn: The Jewish community in Midwood celebrates Purim.

Orthodox Face Mumps Outbreak

Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn are heading to immunization clinics around the city after a mumps outbreak—the largest U.S. outbreak in five years—has spread through the community.

Video – Haitians in Brooklyn: A Month After

by K. S. Nikhil Kumar Exactly a month after the earthquake struck Haiti, several Haitian Americans in New York City, mostly based in Brooklyn, came to seek solace at the Basilica of Our Lady of [...]

Flatbush Church with Haitian Connection

The First Haitian Church of the Brethren in East Flatbush provides constant counseling — sometimes late into the night — to grieving congregants.

Hunt Still On For Anti-Semite In Park Slope

Defamatory notes scattered along Sixth Avenue have been submitted to the police department’s Hate Crimes Task Force.

Child Abuse in Orthodox Brooklyn

Chipping away at a wall of silence.

Parishioner Serves Up Hearty Meal for Homeless

Fort Greene parishioner and jazz musician Carla Cook prepares a hearty meal in her studio apartment to feed the homeless at the Sacred Heart Men’s Shelter.