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Two Jews shot with BB guns in Orthodox section of NYC in past 10 days
Jewish Journal
September 21, 2015
Two Jews were shot with BB guns in a heavily Orthodox neighborhood of New York City.
Founder of L.A. Kabbalah Centre dies
Ryan Torok
September 17, 2013
Rabbi Philip Berg, founder of the Kabbalah Centre in Los Angeles and a spiritual adviser to A-list celebrities such as Madonna, has died, according to an announcement made on the Kabbalah Centre’s Web site on Sept. 16.
Chanukah lessons in a post-Sandy world
Jonah Lowenfeld
December 5, 2012
Late last month, I was in Breezy Point, the isolated beachfront neighborhood in Queens, N.Y., that has become an iconic image for the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy.
Opinion: Teach children to be their own Internet filters
Jewish Journal
May 21, 2012
Tens of thousands of Jews filled Citi Field in Queens on Sunday and heard from haredi Orthodox leaders that the Internet should be avoided in the home at all costs and used sparingly at work, and then only with a filter blocking content that could be damaging spiritually.
Haredim fill N.Y. baseball stadium to decry error of Internet’s ways
Jewish Journal
May 21, 2012
The sellout crowd that filled Citi Field on Sunday night wore black and white, not the New York Mets\’ blue and orange.
Jon Huntsman visits the Lubavitcher rebbe’s gravesite
Jewish Journal
November 1, 2011
Republican presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman visited the New York gravesite of the Lubavitcher rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson.
Melancholy Russian soul flourishing in immigrants
Sandee Brawarsky
October 23, 2008
In an interview, the Moscow-born author, who immigrated to the United States at the age of 7, admits that she, too, has a lingering Russian soul. Her well-written and very enjoyable first novel recasts Tolstoy, as its title suggests, observing immigrants from the former Soviet Union, body and soul.
N.Y. nostalgia with an egg cream chaser
Hank Rosenfeld
October 9, 2008
\”It\’s an attempt at a bit of nostalgia,\” said Abe Glazer (Haaren High School, \’49) as he shuffled into a courtyard ringed with banners identifying high schools — DeWitt Clinton, Erasmus Hall High, New Dorp — where former bobby-soxers sat with Shofar hot dogs or lined up at a vintage Carvel Ice Cream cart as a sextet of alumni/musicians whomped out big band sounds.
Kershaw Museum Plans Ethiopian Show
Journal Report
July 1, 2004
\”A lot of people went to Israel when the country was new and bought Yemenite art, but they didn\’t tell you it was Yemenite,\” said the museum\’s director and founder, Norma Kershaw. \”Ancient or modern, whatever people have\” would be welcomed.
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