Thousands of people turned out for the funeral of Leiby Kletzky, the 8-year-old Chasidic boy in Brooklyn found murdered and dismembered after having disappeared two days earlier.
The body of an 8-year-old Brooklyn boy who disappeared while walking home from camp was found, and at least one suspect was taken into custody.
New York State\’s highest court, the Court of Appeals, has agreed to hear a case requesting the release of documents relating to the sexual abuse case involving Brooklyn Rabbi Abraham Mondrowitz. Attorney Michael Lesher had asked Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes to release the documents in the fall of 2007 under the Freedom of Information Law.
When hundreds of thousands of people converge on the Vatican for the beatification of Pope John Paul II on May 1, a Brooklyn-born Jewish orchestra conductor will have an honored place among them.
The cause of a fire that destroyed a Chabad preschool in Brooklyn is under investigation.
When David Portowicz was a new immigrant to Israel from Brooklyn in the 1970s, he began research on poverty in Jaffa that would lead to his life’s work: the creation of a nonprofit organization that now serves thousands of disadvantaged children and their families. A doctoral student in social work at the time, the small NGO he co-founded in 1982, the Jaffa Institute, today is a veritable force of nature with 35 programs and an annual operating budget of $6 million. The institute runs afterschool activity centers to help keep kids off the streets, offers university scholarships for 170 graduates of Jaffa programs, has shelters for runaways and even provides music lessons.
The original title of Jake Ehrenreich’s show-in-the-making was a rather bland “Growing Up in America,” but, fortunately, it will open Feb. 16 at American Jewish University under the more pointed title, “A Jew Grows in Brooklyn.”\n\nHow the title change came about is described by his director, Jon Huberth, in the companion book to the show.
New York City snow removal trucks dumped tons of snow from the area\’s recent blizzard into the city\’s largest Jewish cemetery, toppling 21 headstones. An iron fence around Brooklyn\’s Washington Cemetery also was damaged when crews from the Sanitation Department dumped the snow into the cemetery over New Year\’s weekend, the New York Post reported Wednesday. The damage was discovered Sunday. Family members of some relatives buried in the cemetery have visited in recent days to check on the graves. Several cars parked next to the cemetery also were buried; some were damaged.
Brooklyn Rabbi Milton Balkany, a Jewish day school director and political activist, was convicted in federal court of extortion.
A former Brooklyn car service driver accused of leaving notes reading \’Kill Jews\’ around New York\’s Long Island was arraigned on a hate crimes charge.
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