Entries Tagged as 'Jewish NY'

Monday, May 12th, 2008

On the evening of April 14, a 20-year-old black man named Andrew Charles was attacked with pepper spray and then beaten by a pair of Hasidic assailants in his Crown Heights neighborhood. The attackers escaped in a GMC Envoy, and although Charles didn’t catch the plate number, a witness did. Police traced its registration to […]

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

From Auschwitz, a Torah as Strong as Its Spirit

The back story of how a Torah got from the fetid barracks of Auschwitz to the ark of the Central Synagogue at Lexington Avenue and 55th Street is one the pastor of the Lutheran church down the street sums up as simply “miraculous.”It is the story of a sexton in the synagogue in the Polish […]

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

Menachem Mendel Boloshov Upshearing .Mazl Tov!

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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

F.R.E.E.”New Hagaddah For Russian Jews Who’ve Outgrown Communal Seders”

“Laws of Passover with Selected Commentaries” was written to satisfy very different groups of Russian Jews, according to Rabbi David Okunov, associate program director at F.R.E.E. headquarters, which published its first Russian language a quarter-century ago.

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 […]

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Williamsburg “The Kibitzer of Cobblers’ Row”

THE Hasidic enclave of South Williamsburg is a good place to be a shoe repairman. Several cobblers there make a living thanks to the distinctive formality of the local Hasidic Jews, a formality that spares only the babies. In a community where men and boys wear long, double-breasted coats with matching felt hats, where women […]

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

“What Benedict Hasn’t Said About the Holocaust” James Carroll

“Constantine’s Sword,” a film by Oren Jacoby, has its theatrical premier in New York on the day of the pope’s visit to the Synagogue.* The coincidence has no significance, although, in my mind, it raises these questions. In the film, Oren Jacoby and I show that the dark legacy of Christian antisemitism began to be […]

Friday, April 18th, 2008

Getting Ready for Pesach in Lakewood

Be it people buying last minute chametz, new clothing for Yom Tov, or wine for the Seder - YWN takes you there in this exclusive photo essay that covers what erev Pesach is like in Lakewood - all the way from mechiras chametz to the burning of the chametz in Lakewood Cheder, and everything in […]

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Yud Alef Nissan, New York

The Rebbe’s birthday is not merely a personal event, affecting him alone. On the contrary, the very name Rebbe is an acronym for the Hebrew words , “head of the Jewish people.” The head contains the nerve center for the entire body, allowing all its diverse organs and limbs to function together as a single […]

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Whole religion in one matzoh

Passover will have yet more meaning this year for Shirley Levy, who came from Caracas, Venezuela, to Crown Heights to learn about Judaism.By the time the holiday begins at sundown Saturday, Levy, 25, will have learned how to properly remove all yeast products from her home and how hand matzoh is correctly made within 18 […]

Friday, April 11th, 2008

Extra Garbage Pickup for Pesach

Council Member Simcha Felder and Community Boards 12 and 14 announced that the Department of Sanitation will be conducting additional garbage collection in preparation for Passover. On Thursday, April 17 and Friday, April 18, there will be an additional collection in areas of Community Board 12 and Community Board 14. In addition, there will be […]

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Metzora. Rabbi Noson Arister (Shiur in Russian)


 
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