Ten years after 9/11, the Muslim community in Brooklyn has been forced into the public view again in the wake of recent revelations that the NYPD were conducting secret surveillance programs against them. Our reporter Omar Akhtar documents his journey through Muslim Brooklyn. Almost every Muslim I speak to at Brooklyn College tells me...
Category: <span>Religion</span>
Fear Grips Midwood Residents after Anti-Semitic Vandalism
Three days after arsonists torched three cars and left a trail of anti-Semitic graffiti, a state of fear lingers over the traditionally Jewish neighborhood of Midwood in Brooklyn.
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.
Brooklyn Catholics Seek Deliverance
Catholic leaders in New York have named today a “diocesan day of prayer” in the face of diminishing communicants and clergy. The New York Daily News reported Sunday and this morning that the Diocese of Brooklyn, which oversees Catholic churches in Brooklyn and Queens, is considering closing churches and consolidating parishes in order to overcome...
Video – Brooklyn Church Reaches out to Sister Parish in Port Au Prince
Rev. Verel Montauban is the pastor at the First Haitian Church of the Brethren in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. He also ministers to a sister congregation in Haiti. Their church, Croix de Mission, was destroyed in the January 12 earthquake.
Former Member of Revolution Muslim Speaks From Morocco
By K. S. Nikhil Kumar After the controversy over the South Park video last week that allegedly depicted the Prophet Mohammed, the Ink caught up with one of the founders of the website Revolution Muslim – the group that threatened Comedy Central – only to find that he’s no longer part of the group. Yousef...
Yousef Al-Khattab, Man Behind Virulent Islamic Website, Grew Up Jewish
By Bilal Haye Editor’s note: The Brooklyn Ink first broke the story of Revolution Muslim, the organization that has issued a threat against the creators of “South Park” for their depiction of the Prophet Muhummad. The story profiled the group’s founder, Yousef Al-Khattab who grew up as Joseph Cohen in Brooklyn. Al-Khattab, in a reader...
Orthodox Molester Gets Max Prison Sentence
A convicted child molester from the Orthodox Jewish community of Borough Park, Baruch Lebovits, received the maximum sentence today in Kings County Supreme Court.
Video – Pessach at the Appelbaums’
Christians are prepping for Easter this weekend: chocolate and eggs are on the shopping lists. Jews are already celebrating Passover, the holiday that commemorated the Jews’ flight from Egypt. The preparations of this holiday are all about bread. Even the last crumb has to go. Jews aren’t allowed to own and eat bread on Passover....
The Ritual Burning
By Yaffi Spodek The strong smell of smoke permeated the air. In the center of a large gated yard, several men stood around a metal trash can. A short, red-haired fellow wearing a black cap held a poker, periodically stoking the orange flames that leapt up and down from inside the pile of garbage. The...