On March 19, a lone gunman in southern France murdered three Jewish schoolchildren and a rabbi outside of the Ozar Hatorah secondary school in Toulouse. On Thursday morning, just three days after the shootings, [...]
Thursday, March 8, 2012
On the evening of March 7, the Jewish community in Brooklyn celebrated the start of Purim, a holiday commemorating the salvation of the Jews from destruction at the hands of a Persian ruler named [...]
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Menachem Stern, an Orthodox Jewish rabbi from Brooklyn, who was told he couldn’t keep his beard if he became an army chaplain, won his legal battle against the military and will be sworn in on [...]
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Jewish leaders have condemned Brooklyn prosecutors who are working to extradite a Crown Heights man wanted in connection with a hate crime back to New York. Rabbis and Jewish community leaders posted letters to freeyitzi.org [...]
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
The NY Daily News reports that Jewish leaders in Brooklyn are offering a $5,000 reward to anyone who assists in solving a robbery that took place during Thanksgiving. Joel Weinberger, 26, was unconscious after a [...]
Monday, October 11, 2010
By Michael Keller At her wedding table, Jenny turns to her new husband Ifthikar and says to him, “I don’t know how I lived for 43 years without you.” Jenny looks through the veil of a [...]
Friday, April 2, 2010
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 [...]
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, [...]
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. [...]
Friday, March 23, 2012
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