By Sharyn Jackson Inside the Karlsburg synagogue on 53rd Street in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn, one light always burns through the evening. Congregants say that Rabbi Yechezkel Roth spends most nights in his shul studying, taking only short naps in his chair while poring over ancient religious texts. But in the early hours...
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August 6, 2010September 8, 2010Brooklyn Life, Sports
Sidewalk Soccer Becomes An Unlikely Ecuadorian Tradition
By Sharyn Jackson When Christian Alvarez moved to Brooklyn in 1999 at the age of 18, he missed the food, the language and the culture he left behind in Ecuador. His brother Carlos Alvarez, who had emigrated here seven years earlier, had the cure. He brought Christian to a stretch of broken sidewalk outside a...
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July 25, 2010September 8, 2010Brooklyn Life
The Torah’s Animals Inhabit a Borough Park Museum
By Sharyn Jackson Holding up the stuffed leg of a giraffe, Rabbi Shaul Shimon Deutsch commanded the unwavering attention of nine sixth-grade boys on a June afternoon. The class from Yeshiva K’Tana in Waterbury, Conn., had come to Deutsch’s museum, Torah Animal World, to see the difference between kosher and non-kosher animals, an issue of...
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July 20, 2010September 8, 2010Brooklyn Life
Is Kensington “Banglatown”? The Question Divides A Neighborhood
By Sharyn Jackson When Abu Khaliquzzaman was a sixth-grader in what was then East Pakistan in the 1960s, he first noticed something curious about the schedule. His school in the region’s capital, Dhaka, was divided into a morning shift for Urdu-speaking boys from West Pakistan and a day shift for Bengali-speaking boys from East Pakistan....
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July 11, 2010September 8, 2010Brooklyn Life
Passed Over, Borough Park Gets A Census Recount
By Sharyn Jackson There was silverware to change, food to prepare, and bread to burn. One thing there wasn’t, for more than half the residents of the Borough Park section of Brooklyn, was time to fill out the 2010 census, mailed to Americans less than two weeks before Passover. The eight-day holiday commemorating ancient Jews’...