admin | February 23, 2022
The Crown Heights riots, which roiled the Brooklyn neighborhood over four days in 1991, were some of the most thoroughly documented events in New York City history. Covered in real time by local, national and global media, the violence was recounted by witnesses in numerous civil and criminal trials
admin | February 23, 2022
Ukraine is in the news.
admin | February 23, 2022
A delegation of Diaspora Jewish leaders is set to meet with Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Wednesday to lobby against religious reforms, including a compromise at the Western Wall that is widely supported by Reform and Conservative Jews. The group of around 45 people includes the executive leadership of Agudath Israel of America, an Orthodox umbrella group also known as Agudah.
admin | February 11, 2022
By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, A Hasidic Village in Upstate New York is a brilliant, eye-opening, thought provoking, easy to read and enjoyable book by two university scholars, Nomi M. Stolzenberg of the University of Southern California, Gould School of Law, who has written widely on law and religion, and David N.
admin | February 11, 2022
(New York Jewish Week via JTA) In the same week that he rallied against a natural gas companys expansion plans, Lincoln Restler repeatedly condemned a series of antisemitic incidents in Brooklyn. Such positions may be par for the course for a member of the New York City Council, but they also reflect Restlers unusual ability, as a newly elected member of the council, to build coalitions within both progressive groups and the large Orthodox community in his Brooklyn district. Restler won the November election with a sweeping 63% of the ranked-choice vote in District 33, which encompasses the haredi Jewish stronghold of Williamsburg along with Greenpoint, Dumbo, Brooklyn Heights and parts of downtown Brooklyn
admin | February 11, 2022
Mark Zimmerman, Special For The Jewish LightFebruary 7, 2022 Jason Brown is a Jewish figure skater who will be representing the United States at the Beijing Olympic Games. He has won numerous events in the past, including 9 medals at Grand Prix international events, the 2015 United States National Championship, and a bronze medal in a team event at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
admin | February 11, 2022
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerFebruary 10, 2022 Hopefully soon, well all be able to pack our bags and fly off to wherever in the world we care to go.
admin | February 11, 2022
Simon Leviev (left) and the man he has claimed to be his father, diamond mogul Lev Leviev (right).
admin | February 2, 2022
Human settlement in England Stamford Hill is an area in Inner London, England, about 5.5 miles north-east of Charing Cross. The neighbourhood is a sub-district of Hackney, the major component of the London Borough of Hackney, and is known for its Hasidic community, the largest concentration of Hasidic Jews in Europe. The district takes its name from the eponymous hill, which reaches a height of 33m AOD,[2] and the originally Roman A10 also takes the name "Stamford Hill", as it makes its way through the area
admin | February 2, 2022
In the sixth installment of a series exploring new and upcoming books, the team at Jewish Insider previews top titles coming out in February: The Books of Jacob, by Olga Tokarczuk (Feb. 1): In her latest book, acclaimed Polish author Tokarczuk, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2018, tells the story of a self-proclaimed Jewish messiah in the 18th century who converts to Islam and then Catholicism, before becoming a proto-Zionist
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