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Pacavisiting Immanuel Baptist.
Sunday morning Immanuel Missionary Baptist Church‘s Associate Pastor Ron Smith — a former city clerk and 2015 mayoral aspirant — preached an impassioned sermon with the theme “Nothing is impossible.”
Those words had particular resonance for one visiting worshipper, Marcus Paca, whose campaign to unseat incumbent Mayor Toni Harp constitutes taking on the New Haven’s Democratic establishment.
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Aug 8, 2017 9:05 pm
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Marco Antonio Reyes Alvarez with his 12-year-old daughter at First & Summerfield Church Tuesday.
In the face of a deportation order, an Ecuadorian immigrant who came to the United States to flee violence has taken sanctuary in a New Haven church — an act of defiance that was welcomed Tuesday evening by the city’s political representatives and immigration advocates.
Supporters rally outside the church late Tuesday afternoon.
A 1980s-era, guitar-god concert at the old New Haven Coliseum featuring Jeff Beck and Stevie Ray Vaughn helped propel a then-teenaged boy toward a musical career of his own — and, eventually, an intertwined Jewish spiritual quest.
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Aug 3, 2017 12:29 pm
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A student in one of the yeshiva dorm buildings.
Under investigation by the state, the Yeshiva of New Haven has promised that no students under 18 years old will attend classes when school resumes this fall.
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Daniel Greer leaves police headquarters Wednesday with bail bondsman Anthony Constantinople.
A one-to-three-inch scar, and the way he pulled his pants over his shoes, helped seal Rabbi Daniel Greer’s fate with police investigating whether he repeatedly sexually assaulted yeshiva students over a period of years.
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Jul 25, 2017 7:59 am
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Nury Chavarria Monday inside Iglesia de Dios.
Nury Chavarria’s decision to hole up in a Fair Haven church to evade deportation wasn’t the first time that she has fled her home to seek sanctuary.
In 1993, near the end of a three-decade civil war, government soldiers ransacked her village in El Petén, Guatemala’s northernmost region, forcing her to vacate her house and sleep overnight in a school. Shortly after, she flew to America, seeking a respite from her country’s violence and poverty.
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Before chaos and sounds of political warfare filled the New Haven Green at a white nationalist event Saturday (as sampled in the above video), a different variety of sounds spoke of a city rising to meet the day, of a city whose pulse is not always measured by the loudest or most obvious sounds.
Jewish women in New Haven started plunging into purification waters more than a century and a half ago and have continued to do so in different non-descript locations. But where, and when?
Statman trio bassist Jim Whitney performing at Sunday’s gala.
Renowned klezmer clarinetist and bluegrass mandolinist Andy Statman revived century-old Chasidic melodies Sunday afternoon inside one of New Haven’s best rooms to hear music — the lovingly restored sanctuary of an almost century-old synagogue.
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A student in one of the two yeshiva dorm buildings.
Three weeks after losing a $20 million sexual abuse lawsuit, Rabbi Daniel Greer and the yeshiva he started in the Edgewood neighborhood may have new troubles at their doorstep.
The Yeshiva of New Haven, which the state accused of operating without proper certifications.
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May 30, 2017 4:06 pm
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Iftar gets underway at 8:25 p.m.
As night fell at Brick Oven Pizza restaurant on Howe Street, Kadir Catalbasoglu lifted a steaming spoonful of şehriye çorbasi — a tomato-based soup with thin noodles — to his mouth. It was the first thing he’d eaten since 3:17 that morning.
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May 15, 2017 12:03 pm
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Larry “Noodles” Dressler speaks to camera after peppering Rabbi Daniel Greer with questions.
Hartford — Defense attorneys for Rabbi Daniel Greer tried to prohibit a blogger who has intensely chronicled Greer’s sexual abuse case from entering a courtroom here — by misrepresenting a legal document.
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Rabbi Daniel Greer, accompanied by his wife Sarah, outside court.
Hartford — Speaking publicly for the first time about sexual abuse allegations that have ripped apart the Orthodox Jewish community he built in New Haven, Rabbi Daniel Greer denied under oath ever having counseled a teenaged yeshiva student named Eliyahu Mirlis about spiritual matters.
Then, under further questioning, Greer refused to say whether he took Mirlis to motels overnight, showed him porn, plied him with alcohol, molested him in the bedroom where he sleeps with his wife and fondled him at several other rental properties he controls throughout the Edgewood neighborhood.
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May 11, 2017 12:02 pm
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Daniel Greer.
Hartford — A bespectacled, ponytailed man reading the true-crime thriller In Cold Blood in the front row of a federal courtroom here was selected as the eighth and final juror who will decide if prominent New Haven Rabbi Daniel Greer repeatedly sexually abused yeshiva students and if the school shirked its duty to intervene.
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Apr 28, 2017 1:52 pm
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Rev. Hector Luis Otero.
If federal immigration authorities descend on New Haven, the undocumented now have a literal sanctuary in which they can find shelter: a 146-year-old church in Fair Haven.
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Apr 27, 2017 2:30 pm
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Ravski at Jewish Federation town hall on Wednesday night.
Levinson.
When New Haven native Jeffrey Levinson was a senior in college in 1991, he and his sister scraped together $1,800 to help relocate the Jewish Community Center of Greater New Haven (JCC) from downtown New haven to 360 Amity Rd. in Woodbridge.
If you see an injured person on the ground while an active shooter is in your sanctuary, don’t stop to help. Figure out the best escape route, which may be through a window, and get out of there.
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Apr 24, 2017 7:26 am
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Rosenberg with granddaughter Maddy at Sunday’s event.
As the Jews of Warsaw struggled to stay alive during the early years of World War II, 15-year-old Helene Rosenberg was used to her older brother bringing her back a tchothke — Yiddish for a toy or some small token of normal life — whenever he was able to sneak out and back into the ghetto.
One day the tchotke the older brother gave Helene was an official-looking piece of paper. As he handed the document to her, he said, “This is going to save your life.”
Who built Long Wharf? Where did Booker T. Washington give his last sermon?
You can find the answers by walking around New Haven’s neighborhoods with the help of new interactive local-history guides. And you can find them in this week’s Elm City Crossword.
Their families had built a school together, a house of prayer, an entire neighborhood. The rabbi was his mentor, his “religious guidepost.” The rabbi’s son was his best friend.
So when the rabbi allegedly started sexually abusing him, he felt both scared and “special.” For more than a decade he told no one — lest he “destroy” the two families’ dream.
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Apr 14, 2017 8:01 am
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Fr. Emmanual left, and Anne Bates at a Marycare event in Westville in 2009.
When Anne Bates, founder and president of the New Haven based nonprofit Marycare, passed away in December, her shared vision to develop a health center for the underserved people of Ejemekwuru, Nigeria, an unofficial sister “village” embraced by many Westville Village residents, had been realized.
But the hard work of staffing and maintaining the clinic had just begun.
