Weiss was born in 1946 and grew up in what was then the largely working class and Jewish Brownsville neighborhood in Brooklyn. Her father worked in a hat factory and her mother was a homemaker. After graduating from Samuel J. Tilden High School in Brooklyn she studied political science at Br...
A Jewish man was slapped in the face and called a “dirty Jew” in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. The incident took place on Saturday afternoon. The Jewish man was attacked by a black male riding a bicycle. He crossed in front of the Jewish man on his bike, sla...
Noun1.Orthodox Judaism- Jews who strictly observe the Mosaic law as interpreted in the Talmud Jewish Orthodoxy Hebraism,Jewish religion,Judaism- Jews collectively who practice a religion based on the Torah and the Talmud Chasidim,Chassidim,Hasidim,Hasidism,Hassidim- a sect of Orthodox Jews that aros...
I really wanted to like this book. It’s a debut novel written by a very bright young man. It’s set in my backyard, Miami, and is about an Orthodox Jewish family who moves from an Orthodox neighborhood in Brooklyn to a much less religious neighborhood in Miami. All things I usually ...
De Blasio fired off several tweets the night before about a large crowd of Hasidic Jews who gathered for a rabbi's funeral in Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood. It was only the latest instance of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn crowding together for an event at a ...
In Brooklyn, a new Jewish community centercalled “The Neighborhood” that aims to attract locals who are curious about Jewish life but don’t attend a synagogue has named Rebecca Guber its founding director, Guber toldeJewishPhilanthropy. “It’s hard to imagine in a community...
The Ohio governor chatted about his favorite Biblical figures -- Joseph and Joshua are at the top of his list -- and delivered an impromptu speech on a sidewalk in Brooklyn’s Borough Park neighborhood, home to a large Orthodox Jewish population, about Judaism's strengths and its links to ...
In South Carolina, Frank R. Fisher married May Helen Valentine today. 1888: In Brooklyn, Dinah Judith Hyman Blumenthal and Jacob Hersh Blumenthal gave birth to Maurice Blumenthal “an architect and engineer in New York City who helped to design and build many NYC buildings” while raising three...
One person was killed and another injured after a fire broke out in a private residence in the Kensington neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York over night. The fire broke out at around 10:00 p.m. Monday night at Ocean Parkway, near Foster Avenue police said Tuesday morning. ...
Joclyn Wood, Frank Xu and Betty Grebenschikoff at the “Jewish Refugees in Shanghai” exhibition at the Brooklyn Public Library.CreditMichelle V. Agins/The New York Times This fascinating, little-known and newly relevant bit of history is getting greater attention these days. “Hello Gold Mounta...