Entries Tagged as 'Borough Park'

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

In Boro Park, A Battle Between Old- and New-Style Politics

“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 […]

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

Boro Park:”1500 women rally for Rubashkin”

“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

Monday, November 16th, 2009

Fewer Hasidim Backed Mayor, Study Finds

“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

Sunday, August 23rd, 2009

Weekdays, the Rabbi Dined Out

” “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 […]

Friday, February 27th, 2009

“A Morning of Chizuk”

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 […]

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

The Changing Face
of Boro Park

“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 […]

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

A Beef With the Rabbis

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 […]

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

Cutting Wheat for the Boro Park Shmurah Matzoh Bakery

Rav Avrohom Yehoshuah Heshel Bick Cutting Wheat for the Boro Park Shmurah Matzoh Bakery. Matzav.com

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

“Everything is a lie,” Rubashkin told JTA.

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 […]

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

SIMCHA GETS BLOOMY NOD

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 […]

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Yitchoke Meir Helfgot: MASBIA Soup Kitchen Special Anniversary

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 […]

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

Borough Park “In the Land of Black Coats”

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 […]