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Jan
14
Brooklyn Church Breaks Ground On Affordable Senior Housing Project

Brooklyn Church Breaks Ground On Affordable Senior Housing Project

The Rev. Dr. Samuel Nicolas, Senior Pastor of Evangelical Crusade Christian-ChurchEAST FLATBUSH – A Brooklyn community broke ground on an affordable
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Jan
08
Community Coalition Seeks Landmark Status for Flatbush Presbyterian Church

Community Coalition Seeks Landmark Status for Flatbush Presbyterian Church

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
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Jan
04
Sheepshead Bay Church Calls For Donations To Help Repairs

Sheepshead Bay Church Calls For Donations To Help Repairs

The Sheepshead Bay United Methodist Church is adding support to its steeples and doing extensive internal and external renovations. (Photo:
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Dec
17
Late Manhattan Beach Rabbi Greenwald Honored With Street Sign

Late Manhattan Beach Rabbi Greenwald Honored With Street Sign

Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerMANHATTAN BEACH – The cold, rainy day was not enough to stop the co-naming street sign ceremony honoring
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Dec
13
Would Secular Education Destroy The Haredim? YAFFED Panel On Education in Ultra-Orthodox Yeshivas

Would Secular Education Destroy The Haredim? YAFFED Panel On Education in Ultra-Orthodox Yeshivas

Inside Oholei Torah, a Crown Heights Yeshiva. (Photo credit: Rabbi Yossi Newfield)CROWN HEIGHTS — Young Advocates For Fair Education (YAFFED)
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Dec
13
Sheepshead Bay Church Hopes To Wrap Up Repairs By Early 2019

Sheepshead Bay Church Hopes To Wrap Up Repairs By Early 2019

The iconic steeples of the Sheepshead Bay United Methodist Church are undergoing repairs. The entrance to the adjacent Russian Orthodox
2 min read
Dec
11
A Bit Of History – Flatbush Church Looking For Developer

A Bit Of History – Flatbush Church Looking For Developer

Flatbush Presbyterian Church on Foster and East 23rd in November of 2018. Liena Zagare/BklynerFLATBUSH – As the borough shuffles to
4 min read
Dec
06
Can Jewish Life Thrive In Space?

Can Jewish Life Thrive In Space?

CROWN HEIGHTS — NASA is working on sending humans to Mars as early as 2030 and some people are already planning
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Nov
29
Brooklyn Historical Society Presents “Muslims In Brooklyn” Next Week

Brooklyn Historical Society Presents “Muslims In Brooklyn” Next Week

Muslims praying. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)BROOKLYN HEIGHTS – Next week, Brooklyn Historical Society (BHS) will present its “Muslims in Brooklyn”
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Nov
29
Swastika Discovered at Brighton Beach Library

Swastika Discovered at Brighton Beach Library

BRIGHTON BEACH – The number of anti-Semitic incidents is up so much that it seems we are reporting about one a
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