"I've been applying, on average, to 40 or 50 places a month," said Queens resident Arnou, who has been unemployed for close to two years. "Everybody I spoke with at the job fair is in the same situation." more>

A meeting between the small delegation of Bukharian Jews and members of the Jamaica Muslim Center took place as part of the second annual "Weekend of Twinning" between mosques and synagogues. The two groups learned from one another and discussed some of the issues surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. more>

The number of households coming to the pantries jumped to 15,000 last month. "We have seen nothing like it," said Met Council CEO and Executive Director William Rapfogel.

VIDEO :: News 12 Brooklyn reported on Masbia kosher soup kitchen in Borough Park Brooklyn. more>

For decades they were a fixture on New York's political landscape: names like Ed Koch and Abe Beame, Andrew Stein and Alan Hevesi, Harrison Goldin, Mark Green and Elizabeth Holtzman. Now that landscape is shifting. more>

The fight to combat anti-Semitism, a vital community priority, is undermined every time "anti-Semitism" becomes yet another cheap slogan used by those looking to settle political and ideological scores. more>

VIDEO :: An anthropology professor at UC Berkeley, Nancy Scheper-Hughes, reacts to the arrest of Brooklyn Rabbi Levy Rosenbaum for trafficking human organs. Seven years ago, she informed the FBI about his alleged dealings. more>

Though hopeful, the Chens, parents of a deeply affected special-needs child, know they are battling dauntingly long odds in their fight to win permanent residency status on the basis of their hardship plea. more>

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"We see people who are not used to thinking of themselves as needy finding themselves for the first time struggling to make ends meet. It's not just the severity of the need but the immediacy of the need." more>


Willie Rapfogel, CEO of Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, talks on economic crisis and need for help among the working and middle classes.

“Last month, when my 4-year-old daughter, Ellie, started at the public elementary school down the block and I looked around her freshly decorated classroom, it hit me just how diverse our neighborhood is,” the author said. “But I also feel a little wistful, particularly about the lack of Jewishness around us.” more>