As the heart of Brooklyn’s Caribbean and Hasidic Jewish communities, Crown Heights deserves its reputation as a cultural touchstone. It is home to the annual West Indian Carnival Parade as well as to the international headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement.”Before, if you saw someone white, they were Hasidic; if they weren’t white, they were […]
“U.S. real estate markets are suffering a serious retreat because of the subprime mortgage crisis and resulting credit crunch in the United States - and Tel Aviv is showing a lot more demand for bonds than New York.Leser’s private assets are estimated at NIS 500 million, on top of any money he will raise on […]
A NEW YORK VISION.Three years ago, Shaya Boymelgreen had just 20 employees. Now, he has more than 200, and among his new purchases is 20 Pine Street, in downtown Manhattan.
In a little over two years, Shaya Boymelgreen, an Israeli immigrant who came to New York in 1969 to study at a yeshiva, has gone from […]
A report about the plans for the new condominium to be built on 580 Crown Street, showed up on a ‘New York Times’ article, following which, a COL correspondent interviewed Reb Mendel Dreizin the realtor involved in this project. “There is a large demand for apartments in Crown Heights’ he said at the interview held […]
The program creates a uniform application for mortgage brokers and a database that banking regulators, and eventually consumers, can use to track down brokers who try to work in one state after being banned from another. Consumers should have access by next year and 35 other states have committed to join the program by the […]
A few days before New Year’s, the racks at several haredi loungewear and hostess gown stores were still full of winter “Shabbos robes,” elegant but practical velour robes worn by haredi women at home. Women were browsing, but they weren’t buying.
Most years, the secular new year comes and goes without the haredim noticing, as they […]
The move comes a day after SIG Specialists said it would stop being a specialist, leaving the NYSE with just five specialist firms.
(AP) - The outlook for the New York Stock Exchange’s iconic trading floor darkened considerably this week, as two of the exchange’s seven stock trading specialists decided to call it quits.
On Thursday, Van […]
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“To make its Megadim brand of ultrakosher confectionary or its Strauss Mehadrin dairy products requires special facilities, because milk from only Jewish sources can be used.ut it is profitable. The ultra-Orthodox market is between 8 percent and 10 percent of domestic sales for Strauss, he said, representing about $73 million a year.”NYtimes
B&H Photo-Video, a world famous camera store known for the traditional Hasidic dress worn by many of its employees, has agreed to pay $4.3 million (€3.04 million) to settle a discrimination case.The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which enforces laws prohibiting discrimination, alleges that B&H Photo and Electronics Corp. paid Hispanics working in its […]
Touting “kosher amenities” — including two-sink kitchens, balconies pre-fit for sukkahs, gyms with separate schedules for men and women — these new condominiums are being custom-built for Orthodox populations that are growing in both absolute numbers and wealth. In Flatbush-Midwood, construction is about to start on a new luxury condominium targeting Orthodox Jews. In Williamsburg, […]
New York… Israeli venture capitalists continue to eye the U.S. kosher market as a potential windfall. KosherToday has learned that a number of Israeli-based investors are looking at the U.S. kosher market as a “point of entry” into the lucrative U.S. food industry. Several have made adjustments to plans laid in […]
