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Mitzvah Tanks Take Synagogues to the Streets

Passover ends and they're back on the streets: the mitzvah tanks, synagogues on wheels offering New York City Jews an unexpected, curbside opportunity to pray. "We invite them in the tank, to have something to eat, something to drink, and we have a blessing," tank driver Yishai Eliefja told the New York Times' Cityroom...

Woman's Screams Alert Brooklyn Neighbors, Attacker Flees [VIDEO]

Several neighbors rushed out of their homes in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn, N.Y., to scare off a man who was attacking a woman on the 16th Street sidewalk. A video taken from a brownstone stoop, according to the New York Daily News, shows the man grabbing the woman as she screams for help for about 45 seconds...

Brooklyn Janitor Charged in Rape of Middle School Girl

A janitor at a New York City middle school has been arrested and charged in the rape of a 13-year-old student, officials said today. Ambiorix Rodriguez, 32, is accused of raping and sexually abusing a female student multiple times in the basement of the Public School of Marketing and Legal Studies in Brooklyn, police told...

Mutts Are Top Dogs at This Animal Show [VIDEO]

Just because your dog isn't a purebred doesn't mean he can't be best in show. It was all dogs all the time at The Brooklyn Mutt Show this weekend, a show held to celebrate the common dog at the Brooklyn Lyceum in Brooklyn, N.Y. Over 60 dog owners came out on Saturday for the second year of the event, their furry...

Caseworkers Charged in Death of Abused 4-Year-Old NYC Girl

Two former New York City child welfare workers have been charged in the death of a 4-year-old girl who was beaten, drugged and starved in her own home. Prosecutors said that Marchella Brett-Pierce was bound to her mother's bed for months and repeatedly beaten and denied food and water. At her death Sept. 2, she weighed...

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Tom Allon: Sunshine Protects Child Abuse Victims

Just when you think good, old-fashioned investigative journalism is going the way of the horse and buggy and typewriter, there comes along a thoughtful expose that restores your faith in a free and robust press.

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Brooklyn Falling Prey To...Dart Attacks

Police in New York City are investigating an odd attack: They say someone unleashed darts that wounded three people on a street.

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The Gaslight Anthem Gets Intimate & Interactive in Brooklyn

As you walked into Music Hall of Williamsburg, the anticipation was so intense, Moses could not even part it like he did the Red Sea. It was the first show that New Jersey's Gaslight Anthem were doing since they finished recording their latest record, Handwritten , which is scheduled for a July release via Mercury Records.

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For Jewish Orthodox Children: No Justice -- No Peace

The special treatment given by prosecutors to Orthodox Jewish sex offenders, reported on extensively over the past six years in The Jewish Week and on the blog Failed Messiah, was first documented in a Newsday series in 2003 regarding the failed police investigation in Brooklyn of infamous alleged serial child molester...

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Brooklyn Welcomes The New York Photo Festival To Dumbo (PHOTOS)

Good news, photo fanatics: this weekend The New York Photo Festival takes over Dumbo, Brooklyn from today until May 20.

Brooklyn News From the Web

05/26/12 EAMONNS IN BROOKLYN CLOSING! Source: Downtown Star - Brooklyn NY Emmonns In Brooklyn , the Irish pub and restaurant at 174 Montague Street that has served the community for decades, will be closing its doors permanently within three weeks.
05/25/12 Brooklyn School Backs Off Condom Giveaway on Prom Night Source: City Room - The New York Times 8:15 p.m. | Updated The principal of Bedford-Stuyvesant Preparatory High School told ABC that condoms would not be available after the dance, saying he did not want to violate Education Department policy.
05/25/12 Free & Cheap in New York: Fri., May 25 Source: New York Daily News - New York NY "The U.S. Army Soldier Show" will take its marching orders and celebrate Fleet Week at the historic Fort Hamilton.
05/24/12 Brooklyn's Hynes Takes Shot at Orthodox Source: The Jewish Daily Forward - New York NY Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes reportedly said that the haredi Orthodox community is the only one in his jurisdiction in which sexual assault victims are harassed and intimidated.
05/24/12 Jr. Reporter Wins Prize Source: The Times Newsweekly - Ridgewood NY Robert Neidkowski, a freshman at Christ the King High School in Middle Village, recently received the Roger Payne Memorial Award for Best Column from The Tablet, the newspaper of the Diocese of Brooklyn and Queens, during the publication's 2012 High School Press Awards contest.