This is the Forward’s coverage of Brooklyn, a borough of New York City home to a major population of Hasidic Jews.
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Fast Forward Mourners Throng Funeral of 7 Orthodox Kids Killed in Brooklyn Shabbat Fire
The funeral of seven Orthodox Jewish children who perished in one of New York’s deadliest fires in years drew a sea of mourners on Sunday to a Brooklyn neighborhood where the blaze has raised concerns about the safety of Sabbath cooking practices. The Brooklyn father who lost seven of his eight children in the home…
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Fast Forward Shabbat Hot Plate Eyed in Blaze That Killed 7 Brooklyn Children
Seven children from an Orthodox Jewish family died early on Saturday when flames ripped through their Brooklyn home in one of New York City’s deadliest fires in years, officials said. Their 45-year-old mother and a teenage sister survived after jumping from an upper floor. The two were taken to a local hospital and were in…
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Fast Forward $900K Raised on Charity Site After Brooklyn Dad’s Tragic Death
(JTA) — On Sunday night, the Jewish community in Crown Heights, Brooklyn was shocked by the sudden death of Nadiv Kehaty, 30, a father of four. Kehaty, a real estate agent who helped found a local Crown Heights synagogue named Itchke’s Shtiebel, did not have life insurance. He collapsed at an event Sunday night at…
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Fast Forward NYPD Investigating Suspicious Activity Outside 2 Brooklyn Synagogues
The New York Police Department is investigating suspicious activity outside of two Brooklyn synagogues. Unknown men took videos in front of two synagogues on Ocean Parkway, in the Borough Park neighborhood, on Saturday afternoon. At the Safra Synagogue, they were driven off by a security guard, according to the New York Daily News. But the…
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Culture Pain and Ponce Are Deli’s Main Ingredients
As you enter the narrow doorway of Brooklyn’s Pearlstein + Dung, the first thing that greets you is the sparse shtetl décor and the pungent odor of artisanal cuisine. With furnishings based on drawings from a crumbling book in Slovakian synagogue basement, the shop is the brainchild of Ari and Zounette Pearlstein. Ari strokes his…
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News The Secrets of Jewish Brownsville
In the past five or six years, William Helmreich has walked a total of 6,048 miles in New York City, covering every block of the city landscape, at an average of 30 miles per week. It wasn’t just for kicks, it was also for research. The longtime sociology professor at the City University of New…
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News Rachel Timoner Brings Social Justice Focus to Brooklyn’s Congregation Beth Elohim
(JTA) — One of the top agenda items these days for Rachel Timoner, associate rabbi at the Leo Baeck Temple in Los Angeles, is trying to get a train built along the I-405 freeway stretching from the North San Fernando Valley to the city’s international airport. It’s the community project her Reform congregation has chosen…
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Fast Forward Brooklyn Warehouse Engulfed By Fire Home to UJA Federation Archives
The Brooklyn warehouse building in Brooklyn destroyed by a seven-alarm fire this weekend was home to over 300 boxes of archival material belonging the UJA Federation. The warehouse also once housed a trove of documents belonging to the American Jewish History Society, but these were moved over a year ago, AJHS Executive Director Rachel Lithgow…
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