by Amanda Julius Benjy Unger remembers sitting cross-legged on his therapist’s floor, waiting to be tapped on the head. Dressed in traditional Orthodox Jewish regalia, “the whole garb,” the 25 year-old was playing duck, duck, goose. The children’s game is one of several tactics used by Jews Offering New Alternatives to Homosexuality, or JONAH, to...
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March 1, 2010March 9, 2010Brooklyn Life, Religion
Mordechai’s ride
Here in Brooklyn: The Jewish community in Midwood celebrates Purim.
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February 18, 2010February 25, 2010Brooklyn Life, Religion
Orthodox Face Mumps Outbreak
Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn are heading to immunization clinics around the city after a mumps outbreak—the largest U.S. outbreak in five years—has spread through the community.
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Video – Haitians in Brooklyn: A Month After
by K. S. Nikhil Kumar Exactly a month after the earthquake struck Haiti, several Haitian Americans in New York City, mostly based in Brooklyn, came to seek solace at the Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Sunset Park. The service was presided over by Chief Bishop of the Brooklyn Diocese, Nicholas DiMarzio. Equally...
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February 12, 2010March 4, 2010Brooklyn Life, Religion
Flatbush Church with Haitian Connection
The First Haitian Church of the Brethren in East Flatbush provides constant counseling -- sometimes late into the night -- to grieving congregants.
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February 5, 2010February 11, 2010Religion
Hunt Still On For Anti-Semite In Park Slope
Defamatory notes scattered along Sixth Avenue have been submitted to the police department's Hate Crimes Task Force.
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February 4, 2010February 8, 2010Religion
Child Abuse in Orthodox Brooklyn
Chipping away at a wall of silence.
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December 22, 2009February 4, 2010Brooklyn Life, Religion
Parishioner Serves Up Hearty Meal for Homeless
Fort Greene parishioner and jazz musician Carla Cook prepares a hearty meal in her studio apartment to feed the homeless at the Sacred Heart Men's Shelter.
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December 21, 2009February 4, 2010Religion
Young and Old, Cooking Together
A cooking club at the JCH in Bensonhurst puts senior citizens to work with young children. The resulting activity is a sight to see.
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December 11, 2009February 4, 2010Brooklyn Life, Religion
Getting the “Get”: An invisible prison between marriage and divorce
By Terry Baynes Agunah Hannah Nagila’s sons are 3 and 5 years old, and they already know what an agunah is. They have told their mother what their father tells them: “Daddy says you’re going to be an agunah until you pay back every cent.” Agunah is the term for a Jewish woman chained to...