A New Jersey schoolteacher is donating a kidney to a Brooklyn teenager who suffers from severe damage to both her kidneys. 13-year-old Sofia Manfredi was given a new lease on life when Jennifer Rothstein, a 39-year-old schoolteacher in Cherry Hill, N.J. volunteered to donate her kidney through the website SaveALife-DonateAKidney.com Read the story at The NY...
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October 20, 2011October 20, 2011Brooklyn Life, Politics, Religion
The Shalit Release: The View From Two Brooklyns
Midwood and Bay Ridge residents react to Hamas’s release of Gilad Shalit into Israeli custody after more than five years in captivity.
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October 11, 2011October 31, 2011Brooklyn Life
Undercover Operation Angers Brooklyn College Students
Students at Brooklyn College reacted, at turns, with both outrage and acceptance over a report that the New York Police Department used undercover officers to infiltrate Muslim student groups on campus. According to a CBS news report this morning, The Associated Press obtained documents that show that the NYPD has been sending undercover officers to schools and...
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October 11, 2011October 11, 2011Brooklyn Life
Chinese Mormon Church: How Mormons Are Using English Language To Reach Immigrants
Our reporter Omar Akhtar visits a Mormon church that uses English to reach out to Chinese immigrants.