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News The Secrets of Jewish Brownsville
In the past five or six years, William Helmreich has walked a total of 6,048 miles in New York City, covering every block of the city landscape, at an average of 30 miles per week. It wasn’t just for kicks, it was also for research. The longtime sociology professor at the City University of New…
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News Rachel Timoner Brings Social Justice Focus to Brooklyn’s Congregation Beth Elohim
(JTA) — One of the top agenda items these days for Rachel Timoner, associate rabbi at the Leo Baeck Temple in Los Angeles, is trying to get a train built along the I-405 freeway stretching from the North San Fernando Valley to the city’s international airport. It’s the community project her Reform congregation has chosen…
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Breaking News Brooklyn Warehouse Engulfed By Fire Home to UJA Federation Archives
The Brooklyn warehouse building in Brooklyn destroyed by a seven-alarm fire this weekend was home to over 300 boxes of archival material belonging the UJA Federation. The warehouse also once housed a trove of documents belonging to the American Jewish History Society, but these were moved over a year ago, AJHS Executive Director Rachel Lithgow…
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Breaking News After 7 Decades, Auschwitz Survivors Still Meet Weekly at Brooklyn Synagogue
(Reuters) — In a little leather book, the kind some men use to list lovers, Holocaust survivor Hy Abrams keeps the names that still haunt him: Auschwitz, Plaszow, Mauthausen, Melk and Ebensee. It has been 70 years since the Soviet army liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, where Abrams was taken at age 20…
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News My Daughter’s Bat Mitzvah Isn’t Jewish Enough for You?
The Seesaw is a new kind of advice column in which a broad range of columnists will address the real life issues faced by interfaith couples and families. Read the discussion and vote below for what you think is the best response to this particular quandary. You can email your own questions, which will remain…
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Opinion What Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox Can Learn from Boro Park
On a sudden whim one day recently, I changed my usual jogging route in Hayarkon Park. Instead of running alongside the stream or encircling the national soccer stadium, I turned south, heading toward Rabbi Akiva Street, the main road of Bnei Brak, the impoverished Haredi neighborhood on the eastern outskirts of Tel Aviv. Since I…
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Breaking News Brooklyn Mom Dies in Fall From Hunter Mountain Ski Lift
A 44-year-old Brooklyn woman died of injuries suffered when she fell 25 feet from a chairlift at Hunter Mountain ski area in New York’s Catskill Mountains, the Greene County coroner said on Monday. The woman, who was killed after she slipped from the lift on Sunday afternoon, was identified as Olga Filkin, said coroner Hassan…
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Culture Ain’t Nobody Here but Us Chickens
● Beautiful Yetta’s Hanukkah Kitten By Daniel Pinkwater, illustrated by Jill Pinkwater Feiwel and Friends, 32 pages, $17.99. Spared from the butchers’ knife, Yiddish-speaking Yetta makes her home in Brooklyn, trying to find a new family and do good where she can. A Holocaust survivor? Not exactly. Yetta is big white chicken with long eyelashes…
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