The Brooklyn Ink

Paladino to Meet with Williamsburg Orthodox Today

Republic Carl Paladino is meeting with Orthodox Rabbis in Williamsburg, Brooklyn today according to an article by Voz Is Neias, a Jewish publication in Brooklyn. The last meeting Paladino held with the Jewish community led [...]

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, [...]

A Match Made in Midwood

With phones literally ringing off the hook, BlackBerry abuzz, it’s a typically hectic day for Levy, a matchmaker, or shadchan, in the Orthodox Jewish community in Midwood.

Orthodox Jews fear mumps outbreak in Brooklyn

Read the Brooklyn Ink’s novel take on the mumps outbreak. We ask what the long-term implications are of a disease that can cause reduced fertility in adolescent men.

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.