Central Brooklyn
CROWN HEIGHTS — More than a million Jewish New Yorkers will observe Passover this Friday. Finalizing a menu and meal prep remains a top priority of the annual holiday. But for the sick-and-shut-in, navigating the 15-step seder (Jewish ritual dinner) can be cumbersome. That premise was the motivation for launching “seders-on-the-go”
Arts & Culture
BROOKLYN – The 100 Most Jewish Foods, a book by Tablet’s editor in chief Alana Newhouse, is a perfect gift for this Passover — gorgeous and funny and well written. It is, if you like food and/or the Jewish tradition, a delight. Naturally heavy on Brooklyn, The 100 Most Jewish
Borough Park
Dov Hikind at the protest last week. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)In the aftermath of last week’s protest and counter-protest in Borough Park over a council member’s comment on Palestine, a prominent community leader there has made a truly bizarre and disturbing allegation. Our reporter, Zainab Iqbal, “organized
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Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerUPDATE: While the NYPD still has not released photos or video of the assailant, it seems it is now being investigated by the Hate Crimes Unit, though the cops won’t tell us when that switch happened. MIDWOOD – Umber Nisar usually drives everywhere. But, the weather was
Borough Park
WILLIAMSBURG — The Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) is naming names. Today it announced five more schools defied its mandate by allowing unvaccinated students to attend school, as the Brooklyn’s measles toll climbs to 158. The DOHMH first barred [/health-department-to-yeshiva-students-immunize-or-stay-home-as-measles-outbreak-spreads-across-southern-brooklyn/] unvaccinated students from attending schools in ultra-Orthodox communities
Bushwick
Women of the Chabad of Bushwick light candles in the window to rededicate the synagogue and bring in the Sabbath. Todd Maisel/BklynerBUSHWICK – The Jewish community of the Chabad of Bushwick showed their resilience on the Sabbath Friday night, February 22, by lighting candles in the very window of the
Central Brooklyn
Faigy Roth at Bklyner (Photo: Kadia Goba/Bklyner)MIDWOOD — Faigy Roth never felt at home growing up in a conservative ultra-Orthodox Jewish community. She liked wearing her mid-calf-length skirts a bit higher and she was into showing off her neckline and collarbone too. She had a cell phone in a
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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
affordable housing
The Rev. Dr. Samuel Nicolas, Senior Pastor of Evangelical Crusade Christian-ChurchEAST FLATBUSH – A Brooklyn community broke ground on an affordable housing development Sunday afternoon, a project that’s been in the making for more than a decade. The project is the brainchild of the Rev. Dr. Samuel Nicolas of The
Central Brooklyn
1922 Rendering of Flatbush Presbyterian Church (Image: The Brooklyn Library) FLATBUSH – In the December issue of Bklyner [/a-bit-of-history-about-the-flatbush-church-looking-for-developer/] we wrote about the history of the 120-year-old Flatbush Presbyterian Church, and how it is likely to be redeveloped into housing, with space for a new church facility, under the current zoning
community
The Sheepshead Bay United Methodist Church is adding support to its steeples and doing extensive internal and external renovations. (Photo: Justin Mitchell/BKLYNER).SHEEPSHEAD BAY – The Sheepshead Bay United Methodist Church is asking for the community’s help. With its 150th birthday looming this year, the church, located at 3087
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