Life After Hasidism
Imagine you’re a Hasidic Jewish boy of perhaps five years old. By this time, like other Hasidic boys, you’ve already been attending heder, primary school, for two years. Six days a week you rise early. [...]
Tag Archive | "Borough Park"
Brooklyn’s Hasidic Jewish Communities to Feature on Oprah’s New Show
Thursday, October 27, 2011
As part of her new television series premiering in January, media mogul Oprah Winfrey made stops in Crown Heights, Brooklyn Heights and Borough Park to immerse herself in the daily life of the Hasidic Jewish [...]
City Threatens to Shut Down Orthodox Bus Line
Thursday, October 20, 2011
According to the New York Post, the Department of Transportation (DOT) has sent “a strongly worded letter” to the owner of the B110 bus, which runs from Borough Park to Williamsburg. The letter is a [...]
Stolen Torahs Returned to Borough Park Synagogue
Monday, May 3, 2010
Five Torah scrolls stolen from the Karlsburg Synagogue in Borough Park on April 28 have been returned to the congregation. The Torahs were valued at about $80,000 each and were turned over to police on [...]
What a Pickle?!
Friday, March 26, 2010
Manhattan’s pain is Brooklyn’s gain. Guss’ Pickles is moving on from the Lower East Side to Borough Park, as Yepoka Yeebo reported yesterday. Now watch her video, in which the neighborhood newbie shows us how [...]
Better Brine in Brooklyn?
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Guss’ Moves Lock, Stock and Barrels to BK By Yepoka Yeebo After 90 years of being a legendary LES institution Guss’ Pickles is loving its new home in Borough Park. “We started selling for Passover [...]
The Everyday Voter
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Our Sudip Mukherjee also spoke with two residents in the area who went to cast their vote at PS 160. Issac Korman, who lives near the school wasn’t able to vote at PS 160 because [...]
Canvasing The Neighborhood
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Our Sudip Mukherjee spoke with Chonie Boymelgreen, a 24-year-old canvaser for Joe Lazar, passing out flyers near PS 160. Boymelgreen said the Lazar campaign ramped up efforts to get out the vote, calling voters and [...]
View From Behind The Curtain
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Our Sudip Mukherjee brings us the latest from poll worker Sindy Tam at PS 160 in Borough Park. Tam, who has been working as a Chinese interperator for the past 10 years at PS 185, said [...]
Hungry, on a Rainy Afternoon
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Here in Brooklyn: Lunch in the rain on 13th Avenue in Borough Park.
Thursday, November 24, 2011
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