Military Allows Brooklyn Rabbi to Keep Beard
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 [...]
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Jewish Leaders Slam Brooklyn Prosecutors
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 [...]
Jewish Leaders Offer Reward in Robbery
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 [...]
Pakistani and Jewish, Without a Doubt
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 [...]
Video – Pessach at the Appelbaums’
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 [...]
Gay and Jewish in Brooklyn
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, [...]
Photo for 11/16/09: Foreman vs. Santos
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. [...]
Dispute Over Messiah Goes to Court
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.
Searching For What Soviets Took Away
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.
Thursday, December 8, 2011
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