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Littered corner of Sheepshead Bay Pier near the Holocaust Memorial Park. Photo courtesy of Elizabeth Mokrousova.Last week, a Sheepshead Bites reader, Elizabeth Mokrousova, reached out to us with her concern about the garbage-filled waters with shocking photographs taken at the edge of the pier. The photos show empty Ajax
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Leonid Rozenberg, president of the American Association of Invalids and Veterans of World War II, speaking a Sunday’s Rally. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)Responding to reports of a string of anti-Semitic incidents in New York City, hundreds gathered for a rally at Holocaust Memorial Park Sunday to call
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A neighbor holds a photo of a victims at the Holocaust Remembance Event organized by the Stop Anti-Semitism Foundation.Yom HaShoah [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_HaShoah], or Holocaust Remembrance Day, passed last week and was observed on Sunday with two local events remembering the victims of the Nazi
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With kidnapped yeshiva teenage boys Naftali Frenkel, Gilad Shaar and Eyal Yifrah missing in captivity for 11 days, the Be Proud Foundation and Community Board 15 are teaming up to host a rally, June 26, 7:00 p.m. at Holocaust Memorial Park, to let the voices of southern Brooklynites
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The following is a flier from the Holocaust Memorial Committee:
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Rabbi Menahem Zarkh leads the memorial service in prayer.Local survivors of the Nazi atrocities during World War II braved frigid weather to gather with family and friends and commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day yesterday. Organized by the Be Proud Foundation, about 35 Southern Brooklyn members of the Russian-American Jewish
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Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz and Brooklyn Parks Commissioner Kevin Jeffrey brought together more than 80 students and their parents from Manhattan Beach’s Mazel Day School for a cleanup of Holocaust Memorial Park. Aside from tidying up the place, the event was held to commemorate the first anniversary of Superstorm Sandy,
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Council Candidate Ari KaganFierce campaigning and bitterness is quickly becoming the hallmark in the battle to win the departing Michael Nelson’s City Council seat. Politicker is reporting [http://politicker.com/2013/07/russian-american-council-candidates-battle-in-brighton-beach/] that Democratic candidate Ari Kagan and Republican David Storobin are running tough campaigns to win over
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A group of activists unveiled five new stones memorializing non-Jewish victims of the Holocaust at Sheepshead Bay’s Holocaust Memorial Park this weekend, capping off nearly two decades of fighting for the right against a local committee opposed to the installation. The stones, dispersed throughout the public park, remember the
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The Cleaning Sheepshead [http://www.facebook.com/CleaningSheepshead] Facebook group would like to invite you to come help clean up our neighborhood tomorrow. They write: We are assembling Saturday 11/3/12 at 10:30am at the Holocaust memorial on the corner of Emmon’s Avenue and West End Avenue!
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A footprint left at the site of the vandalism last week, believed to belong to the culprit.Our report last week on the anti-Semitic graffiti at the Holocaust Memorial [/breaking-anti-semitic-graffiti-found-at-holocaust-memorial-park/] was met with swift responses from elected officials [/more-responses-to-anti-semitic-vandalism-at-holocaust-memorial-park/], and so far one measure has been taken to ensure the
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Approximately 200 people gathered together at the Holocaust Memorial Park on Emmons Avenue and Shore Boulevard in honor of the 27th Annual Holocaust Memorial Gathering this past Sunday, honoring and preserving the memories of those who perished in the Holocaust. The audience was filled with people of all ages. There
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Photo by Erica ShermanMore than 200 members of Southern Brooklyn’s Russian Jewish community converged upon Holocaust Memorial Park this past weekend to participate in a somber ceremony of remembrance, marking 70 years since the beginning of the mass killings of Jews in the former Soviet Union by the Nazis
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The three existing monuments on Chaplains Hill (Source: arlingtoncemetery.mil) Here’s an interesting story, not exactly straight out of Brooklyn, but relevant to our area nonetheless. Earlier in the week, the House of Representatives passed legislation sponsored by Congressman Anthony Weiner and Senator Charles Schumer, which will establish a
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(Photo courtesy of Robert Fernandez) New anti-semitic graffiti has been spotted by a Sheepshead Bites reader, this time on Neck Road train station’s Manhattan-bound platform. The marking, which read “Jewz suck ballz”, is on the floor near the first lamppost at the north end of the platform. Although it’