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WATCH: Oprah: 'I Was More Hasidic Jew Than I Thought'

Posted 02.09.2012

Read More: Oprah and Judaism, Crown Heights, Video, Oprah Winfrey, Chabad, Oprah Winfrey Brooklyn, Oprah's Next Chapter, Borough Park, Oprah Winfrey Network, Religion News

After visiting Hasidic communities in Brooklyn, N.Y., for a two-part episode on "Oprah's Next Chapter," Oprah Winfrey sat down for an exclusive interv...

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A Great Antidote to Lack of Faith in Government

Brad Lander | Posted 01.04.2012

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Brad Lander

When offered the opportunity to meet and talk together with neighbors in a collaborative process, and to use shared resources to confront common problems and improve our community, people respond enthusiastically.

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The Trauma of Silence: Speaking Out About Orthodox Jewish Child Abuse

Eishes Chayil | Posted 10.01.2011

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Eishes Chayil

When I first tried to write about abuse in our community, to use the words needed to describe what was happening to so many children, I was firmly told not to.

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The Butchering of 8-Year-Old Leiby Kletzky

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 09.13.2011

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Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

Not only is Levi Aron not part of the religious Jewish family, he is not part of the human family. He is a beast of the field, a cold-blooded predator, devoid of any spark of G-d or hint of humanity. He is a man without a soul, a spiritless hominid.

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Sonja Sharp

'God Is Crying With Us'

HuffingtonPost.com | Sonja Sharp | Posted 09.13.2011

Read More: Rabbi Eisenberger, Dismembered Body, Frum, Borough Park Boy, Jewish, Brooklyn Crime, Orthodox, Leiby Klatzky, Borough Park, New York News

BROOKLYN, N.Y. -- Sobbing mothers dressed in black crowded the streets of Brooklyn Wednesday night. Many had come from Monsey and New Square, 50 m...

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Dismembered Body Of Missing Brooklyn Boy Found

Posted 09.12.2011

Read More: Video, Nypd, Williamsburg, Crime News, Crime, Brooklyn, Shomrim, Fbi, Dismembered Body Found, Borough Park, Leiby Kletzky, New York News

The dismembered body of missing 9-year-old Brooklyn boy Leiby Kletzky was discovered early Wednesday morning in a dumpster outside an autobody shop in...

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Paladino, Rabbis And A New Religious Taxonomy

Terry Curtis Fox | Posted 05.25.2011

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Terry Curtis Fox

Let me propose that we stop thinking about Catholics, Jews, Protestants, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists and secularists. Let us instead create a taxonomy of the fundamentalists, the tolerant observant and the enlightened.

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Police Crime Reporting Scandal: Now the 66th Precinct?

Len Levitt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Adrian Schoolcraft, John Sprague, 66th Precinct, Ray Kelly, Hasidic Jew, David Flores, Shomrim, Nypd, Borough Park, Crime Reporting, Nypd Scandals, New York News
Len Levitt

Did Brooklyn police ignore a citizen's complaint about a flasher who ended up shooting four members of an Orthodox Jewish volunteer patrol?

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Brooklyn Mumps Outbreak: 57 Confirmed Cases In Borough Park

nydailynews.com | Helen Kennedy | Posted 05.25.2011

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City health officials warned Thursday of an outbreak of the old-fashioned childhood disease mumps in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn....

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Saving Small Businesses, The Brooklyn Way

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jim Luce

Bob Zuckerman does not want to wait for the economic stimulus package to drip down to Brooklyn's quickly emptying storefronts.

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