Entries Tagged as 'Borough Park'

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 […]