“To all outside appearances, Assembly Member Dov Hikind had been something of a mench for his former chief of staff, David Greenfield. When Greenfield had gone to Albany to lobby elected officials, he had lunched in Hikind’s office. A couple years ago, Hikind’s political club, the United New York Democrats, held an event honoring Greenfield […]
“A crowd of 1500 women attended a rally in support of Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin Monday evening in Boro Park, Brooklyn. Speakers included Rubashkin’s daughter Rosa Hindy Weiss and Mrs. Miryam Swerdlov. “ more photo@COLLive.com
“In 2005, the mayor got four out of five votes cast in the Hasidic sections of Crown Heights, Borough Park and Williamsburg. He carried those same areas this time, but with considerably less support, according to an analysis. ” more@NYTimes.com
” “The men here, their families remain upstate, so they’re looking for some good, reasonably priced food, and for some company,” said Rabbi Shlomo Weiss, who broke bread one recent weeknight with perhaps a dozen other men in the basement of a large building on 53rd Street near 13th Avenue that is usually used for […]
On Sunday, March 1, New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind of Brooklyn is scheduled to host a community-wide event entitled “A Morning of Chizuk” to show solidarity with victims of sexual abuse in the Orthodox Jewish community and to provide information to concerned citizens. The program includes inspirational speeches and the recitation of Tehillim. Addressing […]
“At any rate, the Indians sold Boro Park, along with the rest of Brooklyn and Manhattan, for some shirts, shoes, stockings, knives, scissors, and combs. Boro Park as a community celebrated its 120th birthday last year. In the early decades, Boro Park was sparsely populated, and there were few, if any, Jews here.”
“There were very […]
Kosher king Aaron Rubashkin, a man of biblical mien, almost never grants interviews. To find him, you must journey deep into the heart of Brooklyn to 14th Avenue, in a neighborhood called Borough Park. There, amid a sea of bearded men in dark hats and yarmulkes sauntering past synagogues, kosher restaurants, and storefronts lettered in […]
Rav Avrohom Yehoshuah Heshel Bick Cutting Wheat for the Boro Park Shmurah Matzoh Bakery. Matzav.com
Aaron Rubashkin, outside his Brooklyn butcher shop on June 3, 2008, says his Agriprocessors firm “don’t do no injustice to nobody, not to a cat.”photo JTA
Aaron Rubashkin, the owner of the embattled kosher slaughterhouse Agriprocessors, denies he has engaged in unethical labor practices and blames the failure of U.S. immigration policy for his mostly illegal […]
Mayor Bloomberg is going to put his political clout on the line by endorsing a longtime ally who is about to make an unexpected run for the state Senate seat held by Kevin Parker in Brooklyn, The Post has learned. City Councilman Simcha Felder (D-Brooklyn), long thought to be a contender for city comptroller next […]
World-Renowned King of Cantorial-Music Yitchoke Meir Helfgot Serving Hot Meals at MASBIA soup Kitchen in the Month of its Third Anniversary. (PRNewsFoto/MASBIA.org) Three years ago, a welcomed guest arrived in the streets of BoroughPark Brooklyn. It wasn’t a famous rabbi or scholar, nor was it a well-knownpolitician coming to campaign in a neighborhood considered […]
TAKE the D train to 55th Street in central Brooklyn, and you feel as if you have set foot in a different world.
The station sits at the junction of New Utrecht Avenue, 13th Avenue and 55th Street in the heart of Borough Park, home to a quarter-million Orthodox Jews, one of the largest concentrations […]
