Big Story
Thousands of women at the annual International Chabad-Lubavitch Women’s Conference dinner at the New York State Armory in Williamsburg. (Photo credit: Shmuel Amit/Chabad.org)WILLIAMSBURG — There are roughly 60 Chabad-Lubavitch synagogues in Brooklyn. A thriving retail corridor along Kingston Avenue hums with shoppers daily, just down the block
Announcements
Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerMANHATTAN BEACH – The cold, rainy day was not enough to stop the co-naming street sign ceremony honoring the late rabbi, Dr. Eli B. Greenwald. “There’s not a more fitting tribute than to name a street sign after him,” president of Ohel David and Shlomo Synagogue Albert
Announcements
Screenshot via JTALast week, after a video of a Brooklyn man mocking a Hasidic boy’s hairstyle went viral on Twitter, local officials were quick to condemn the incident as hateful anti-Semitism. Now, the video’s author has offered a sincere apology and the Jewish community of Brooklyn has responded
Police & Fire
Photo: Dave Hosford [https://www.flickr.com/photos/baltimoredave/4400415668] / Flickr)While walking home from the Flatbush Park Jewish Center in Mill Basin at about 3:45pm on Wednesday, two Jewish brothers, dressed in yarmulkes and prayer shawls, were attacked by a group of three men, according to the police
fort greene
The graffiti. (Courtesy NYPD)Cops are on the lookout for four unknown bicyclists who they say scrawled anti-Semitic graffiti and they’re asking for the public’s help in finding them. At about 1:20am on May 25, four unknown bike riders approached 45 Taaffe Place, where one of the
Food & Drink
(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
Education
Photo courtesy of Paypaul via FlickrA Kingsborough Community College professor has filed a lawsuit accusing top administrators of creating an culture of “systemic anti-Semitism” in which Jewish faculty were openly harassed and discriminated against. The lawsuit [http://thelawfareproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Lax_Complain_EDNY.pdf], first reported by
Central Brooklyn
If you’re looking for a good chinese restaurant to go to this Christmas you better start making reservations now because you’re not the only one with a hankering for general tso’s chicken. What started out as meals of convenience [http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/12/
brown street
A 76-year-old man was attacked and robbed on Brown Street in Sheepshead Bay early Friday morning while walking to his synagogue, the Jewish Voice reports [http://www.jewishvoiceny.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12321:jewish-man-robbed-walking-to-synagogue-in-sheepshead-bay&catid=112:new-york&Itemid=295] . Police identified
immersion
There are a few spots left in the new Russian Language Immersion Preschool at the Kings Bay Y at Windsor Terrace [http://www.ywindsorterrace.org/preschool/admissions]! Come to an open house on Tuesday, August 4 at 7pm to meet the teachers and learn more about this exciting, cutting-edge program,
barbecue
This Sunday, May 31, from 3-6pm, everyone is welcome to come learn about Temple Beth Emeth [https://www.facebook.com/TBEOPSZ?fref=ts] at a free barbecue [https://www.facebook.com/events/813071132111264/] that will be held in our neighborhood. Temple Beth Emeth is a reform synagogue located at the
day camp
> “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart,” – Nelson Mandela. Being multilingual has been proven to greatly benefit children in a number of ways, as research dating back