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 all about bread. Even the last crumb has to go. Jews aren’t allowed to own and eat bread on Passover. This is [...]
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
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, goose. The children’s game is one of several tactics used by Jews Offering New Alternatives to Homosexuality, or JONAH, to turn gay [...]
Monday, November 16, 2009
Yuri Foreman, an Orthodox Jewish boxer raised in Brooklyn, became the first Jewish World Champion since 1932. On Saturday night in Las Vegas he defeated champion Daniel Santos to win the WBA Super Welterweight title. Foreman is studying to be a rabbi. Share
Friday, November 6, 2009
Six members of the Orthodox Jewish patrol Shomrim were back in the Brooklyn Supreme Court yesterday, on trial for allegedly attacking yeshiva students in Crown Heights two years ago.
Monday, October 19, 2009
The sons and daughters of Russian Jewish immigrants converse over frothy beers at the Jewish Center in Brighton Beach. They are here, ostensibly, to study the books of Jewish law, something their parents could not do when they lived in the Soviet Union.
Monday, October 19, 2009
Former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani endorsed Mayor Michael Bloomberg in his bid for reelection at a Sunday morning breakfast hosted by the Boro Park Jewish Community Council, in honor of Holocaust survivors. Share
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
The annual kaporos ritual in Crown Heights took place at 2am and was a sight to behold. Photo: Zevi/Brooklyn Ink
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Last week, Orthodox and Hasidic Jews celebrated Sukkot, a festive harvest holiday that concludes the Jewish holy month of Tishrei. In Borough Park, an enclave of religious Jews, the holiday was celebrated with great fanfare. Photo: Alessi/Brooklyn Ink
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