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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News How Naugahyde Helped Kitchen Chairs Stay in a Jewish Family for Generations
One of my mother’s favorite Yiddish proverbs was, “You can’t sit on two horses with one behind.” A fine observation, but growing up in Brooklyn, sitting on even one was unlikely. My own steed was the lid of a sewing machine, a rounded wooden case shaped like a covered bridge with curved corners. Heigh-ho, Singer….
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Opinion How We Cover Sammy Cohen-Eckstein’s Death
The morning after the funeral for Samuel Cohen-Eckstein, the Brooklyn teenager who was killed by a van just a month before his bar mitzvah, the leaders of his family’s synagogue wrote to me, extremely upset about our coverage. Since these are leaders I respect, who raised serious, vexing questions, I responded to them right away….
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News Bar Mitzvah Boy Sammy Cohen-Eckstein Mourned by Hundreds at Brooklyn Funeral
Hundreds gathered at Congregation Beth Elohim in Park Slope on Thursday for the funeral of a 12-year-old boy killed Brooklyn boy who was struck by a van and killed on Tuesday evening outside his home near Prospect Park. Amidst audible sobs in the packed synagogue, friends and family of Samuel Cohen-Eckstein stood to bid him…
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Fast Forward Janet Yellen’s Brooklyn Childhood Friends Remember When
To some who knew Janet Yellen decades ago, her nomination to lead the Federal Reserve was no surprise, and had them feeling reassured the country’s monetary system would be in capable hands. “We referred to her as a stealth intellect,” said Charles Saydah, a retired journalist who went to junior high and Fort Hamilton High…
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Fast Forward Brooklyn Bar Mitzvah Boy Samuel Cohen-Eckstein Killed in Tragic Accident
A 12-year-old Brooklyn boy was struck by a van and killed on Tuesday evening while chasing a soccer ball outside his home near Prospect Park, police said. Popular eighth-grader Samuel Cohen-Ecktein, 12, was crushed when he ran into Prospect Park West Tuesday night. Cohen-Eckstein was hit by an oncoming 2006 white Chevrolet van, and was…
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Culture Meet Ezra Goldstein, the Oracle of Literary Brooklyn Community
Once upon a time in Zanesville, Ohio, Ezra Goldstein faced a life-altering choice: stay put and help run the family electrical shop, or chase the dream of being a writer. Fast-forward three decades to Brooklyn, N.Y., circa 2010, when Goldstein faced a fork in the road that in many ways mirrored the first. This time,…
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Opinion Celebrating Simchat Torah, Brooklyn-Style
It was a Simchat Torah celebration that surely most of the Hasidim walking past had never before witnessed: hundreds of liberal Jews, men and women, young children and the middle-aged, dancing together with Torah scrolls held aloft. Revelers twirled round and round in Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza, just outside the entrance to Prospect Park. “Simchat…
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Fast Forward Thousands of Kapparot Chickens Die in Brooklyn Heat
Thousands of chickens designated for the pre-Yom Kippur kapparot ritual died in New York due to unseasonable heat. An estimated 2,000 chickens died Wednesday in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Borough Park on Wednesday, when temperatures climbed into the mid-90s, the New York Daily News reported. Chaim Singer,32, told the newspaper that water and shade were…
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