14 days ago by chaviva

In about an hour I'm hopping in a car with four other eager Jewish college students to trek to Crown Heights for the International Shabbaton there this weekend. We'll be eating Shabbos meals by family members of the Chabad rabbi on campus and partying it up Crown Heights style, I guess. There are se ...

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15 days ago by Lucky Wolf

Two days before the election, the Hasidic Jewish community in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, is strongly leaning towards John McCain. Many members of the Lubavitch community expressed concerns about foreign policy, school vouchers, and social conservatism. Barack Obama's perceived lack of experience and w ...

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16 days ago by Dana Rubinstein

It is, perhaps, the ultimate sign of entry into the exclusive club of Brooklyn neighborhoods attractive to New York's self-consciously creative class: a neighborhood blog. Now that Crown Heights' main drag Franklin Avenue has its own blog, the neighborhood, it would seem, has finally arrived. Said b ...

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17 days ago by Lucky Wolf

Meir Shitrit a 20 year-old Lubavitch bochur originaly from Bnei Brak, Israel singing at a wedding in Crown Heights.

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19 days ago by emily.feldman

Campaign fundraising usually evokes images of fancy parties and famous faces – but one Crown Heights woman came up with another recipe for bringing in the bucks. Priscilla Maddox, a retired nursing home worker, has raised an estimated $2,000 for the Barack Obama campaign by selling boxes of a treat ...

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19 days ago by joycectang

Get ready for the last push. Brooklyn for Barack has convinced local Brooklyn bars to provide discounted drink specials to all Obama volunteers between now until election day. All you need to do is get out there and hit the phone lines. I’m guessing lots of calls are going out to Florida, North Caro ...

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20 days ago by Bill Levinson

by Bill Levinson Senator Barack Obama (Ill): “Reverend Sharpton is a voice for the voiceless, and a voice for the dispossessed. What National Action Network has done is so important to change America, and it must be changed from the bottom up.” (April 2007) Attention, Jewish Democrats: Al Sharpton i ...

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21 days ago by chaviva

Are you ready for a "roundup of the life of Chavi" post? Brace yourself, it's absolutely thrilling. (Oh, and a note? The hedgehog birthday note was for Mottel , so I hope he enjoyed it.) At any rate, this is what happens when I spend days taking notes on all of the ways that Qohelet espouses on how ...

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25 days ago by ltjbukem

Perhaps feeling a bit too boxed in by the Hello Living projects, an owner who purchased this townhouse for $550,000 in October 2004 has enlisted corcoran to market it for a whopping $1.24MM. The three family boasts three floor-thru apartments at about 1,000 square feet for each floor.

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26 days ago by joycectang

No, not soup kitchen. A real, bonafide soup restaurant may be arriving in the dead of recession time, all the way from Guyana. So says Stabroek News about German’s, a local Tiger Bay restaurant specializing in soups. Rumor has it that they’re looking to open up shop right on Church Avenue in Crown H ...

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