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 […]
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 […]
“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.
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
