Voices Stories by Gal Beckerman
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School teaches Hebrew to a diverse class
Says non-Jewish parent Deborah Harte, "There may be some who might think: 'Why involve him in Jewish culture? Won't you be robbing the child of his own identity?' But the Jewish culture and the black struggles parallel each other. I don't think our histories are so far apart that it would be difficult for him to empathize with what he was learning." more>
An odd political alliance of Left and Right walks the streets of Brooklyn
Nowhere has the truism that politics makes strange bedfellows seemed truer than in New York's 39th City Council district. The district takes in a wide swath of the liberal, gentrifying neighborhoods of Brooklyn's Brownstone Belt, including Park Slope, a lesbian Mecca and a hub of progressive Jewish life. But it also includes a slice of the Hasidic stronghold of Boro Park. more>
