Central Brooklyn Brooklyn is Preparing for Virtual Seders During the Pandemic Photo by Erica Sherman/BklynerThe holidays are about connecting. From services, where dozens pray side-by-side and touch their siddur, or prayer book, to a roving Torah before pressing it to their lips, to the meals, where fellow diners rip hunks off of the same loaf of challah with their hands,
Business Kosher Coffee Shop Chocolatte Comes to Franklin Avenue Chocolatte on Franklin Avenue. Rachel Baron/Bklyner.CROWN HEIGHTS — A bearded, fedora-clad gentlemen, his blank eyes staring out from behind dark-rimmed glasses, watches over the clientele at Chocolatte [https://www.choco-latte.com/] at 800 Franklin Avenue. The bearded dude is the shop’s logo – and, in a way, its mascot,
Bushwick Storefront Synagogue In Bushwick Vandalized Chabad of Bushwick (Screenshot: Google Maps)BUSHWICK — A Bushwick storefront synagogue was vandalized Saturday amid a rise in hate crimes throughout New York City. Two vandals shattered the front window of the Chabad of Bushwick synagogue Saturday morning at 2:00 am, according to police. Rabbi Menachem Heller told several
Central Brooklyn Avoid 40 Years In The Desert With This Brooklyn Community Seder Guide (A traditional Seder courtesy Wikimedia Commons)Brooklyn’s matzoh bakeries are working overtime in preparation for Passover, producing only the finest shmura matzoh [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/13/dining/passover-matzo.html?_r=0], which celebrates the liberation of the Jewish people from bondage under the Egyptian pharaoh. What
