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Allan Appel |
Apr 13, 2023 3:10 pm
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Albertus students, faculty planting pillars of faith Thursday.
A day of working in a garden — weeding and putting in kale and asparagus and bounty that will all be given away to food pantries and nonprofits — doesn’t usually begin with an assembly of 120 people and a reading from Paul’s letter to the Philippians in the New Testament, followed by a prayer.
Here’s a peek of how Passover, the spring festival of letting it all go and coming back again, otherwise known as the exodus from Egypt, slipped onto green expanses of Yale University.
It’s in the words of Ari Berke, a student in Yale College’s Daily Themes course where I am doing some tutoring/teaching this semester. I couldn’t resist.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Mar 17, 2023 3:08 pm
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Neighbor Shawn Nesmith outside 949 Whalley: "Tell them to get rid of that blighted property."
Still fenced off. Still tax-exempt.
A former Westville department store remains fenced off, empty and rundown — 20 years after the Church of Scientology bought the property, five years after the church last won permission to convert the site into a religious hub, and one year after a city board found that the long-vacant building should stay off the tax rolls.
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Allan Appel |
Feb 27, 2023 10:45 am
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Paul Zalonski and Jayne Ryzewski on Sunday.
Even if the war in Ukraine ends tomorrow, which it will not, there will remain an urgent need to rebuild the Eastern European country’s Russian-destroyed economy and infrastructure and to repatriate its citizens.
The 6 Black Catholics under consideration for sainthood.
Featured speaker and guide Shingai Chigwedere.
There are 11 white Americans — and 0 African Americans — among the 10,000 saints recognized by the Roman Catholic Church.
“Zero Black American saints. Zero Americans-of-African-descent saints,” Shingai Chigwedere told a 20-person audience at Albertus Magnus College. “However you want to word it, there are zero.”
That number may soon change, as the local Catholic university shined a light on the six Black Catholics currently being considered for sainthood.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Feb 10, 2023 4:33 pm
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Hulya Elevli: “I’m not changing my clothes because I’m thinking, 'They can’t change theirs over there.'”
Some of the donations ready to be boxed and shipped to Turkey.
Hulya Elevli has spent every day this week sorting through donations at the Diyanet Mosque in Quinnipiac Meadows while coordinating with earthquake refugees to help them find shelter in a house she owns in northern Turkey.
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Allan Appel |
Jan 30, 2023 12:34 pm
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Mark Oppenheimer with his high school teacher and dean Alice Baxter on Sunday.
How about a written application — as opposed to an old boys’ nod from the rowing coach — and in-person interviews to detect your excessively Lower East Side manners?
How about a questionnaire requiring you to indicate, for example, what business your family is in? And written recommendations and aptitude tests?
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Laura Glesby |
Jan 27, 2023 2:28 pm
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At Thursday's First Calvary Baptist Church-hosted conversation. Clockwise from top left: Shepard St. resident Addie Kimbrough, top state's attorney Pat Griffin, youth anti-violence organizer Remidy Shareef, Rev. John Lewis.
Before December, “I had never seen anyone die,” Addie Kimbrough told a room full of police, prosecutors, clergy, and politicians. Until, on the block where she founded a community garden, she witnessed a young man lying on the ground.
He was the same age as her grandson: 24. “I saw them trying to revive him,” Kimbrough said later. That moment “touched me.”
She found herself taking the mic at a community meeting calling for change and volunteering to help. “I don’t want this to happen to any of our kids.”
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Jan 16, 2023 6:30 pm
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Rev. Eldren Morrison: “The church has lost its activist spirit."
A former New Haven-based faith leader returned to Dixwell Avenue Monday to lift up Martin Luther King Jr.‘s legacy of church-led progressive political action.
One of the country’s leading civil rights leaders has taken a new job in New Haven to train a next generation of faith-inspired advocates for social and economic justice.
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Allan Appel |
Nov 28, 2022 10:28 am
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Krissel and Ryan Mendez with Jamie Zhuzhingo at Friday's coat drive.
Eight-year-old Ryan Mendez is now no longer afraid of the wind and the rain — thanks to a crisp new blue-and-white jacket he scored at a Fair Haven coat drive led by a locally based, internationally operating Catholic fraternal order.
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Lawrence Dressler |
Nov 21, 2022 9:14 am
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Maurice Gorowsky (right) with Lawrence Dressler.
The following eulogy was written by Lawrence Dressler and read on Sunday at the funeral of Maurice Gorowsky, a longtime friend of his and a World War II veteran who passed away this weekend at the age of 99. He was buried at the Beth Israel cemetery on Fitch Street between Whalley and Jewell.
Maurice Gorowsky was born on April 20, 1923 in Philadelphia to Russian Jewish immigrants Bella Liebman and Louis Gorowsky.
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Nov 11, 2022 9:55 am
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Carl Harvey with one of the three vehicles the group hopes to ship next month.
As a young nurse training at Walter Reed Medical Center during the Vietnam War, Jane Ryzewski knows firsthand how much care and how many supplies are needed to help injured soldiers.
Which is why she joined three dozen fellow volunteers at the Ukrainian Catholic Church on George Street to organize and prepare to ship out an ever-growing assemblage of medical supplies and winter clothing to the front lines of another international conflict that is now in its ninth month.
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Allan Appel |
Oct 31, 2022 11:08 am
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Congregant Josue Ortiz shows how it's done.
Josue Ortiz sounded the shofar, but it wasn’t the Jewish Day of Atonement. He wasn’t even in a synagogue.
The site was the Estrella Resplandeciente de Jacob, the Radiant Star of Jacob Church in Fair Haven, where the spirit and service of long-time pastors Javier and Shari Diaz were trumpeted, along with the help of an official certificate presented by U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal.
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Laura Glesby |
Sep 27, 2022 8:47 am
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Jana Russo-Priestley, center, with wife Anne and father Arius.
Jana Russo-Priestly arrived at the Omni ballroom remembering the role that Dixwell Avenue Congregational United Church of Christ (UCC) has played in three generations of her family’s history — as well as in two centuries of New Haven’s.
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Brian Slattery |
Aug 29, 2022 9:17 am
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Rev. Jeremiah Paul.
The Rev. Jeremiah Paul, pastor for Hamden Plains United Methodist Church, held his hand high as he spoke to the crowd assembled to hear him at Hamden’s Town Center Park on Friday evening. His audience were members of his congregation, but also from the greater New Haven community, a mix of languages, ages, cultures and creeds. Among them were artists selling their pieces and food truck vendors feeding the people.
“We had a little rain shower, which I consider a blessing from the heavens,” he said amiably. With the sun out, the show was ready to start.
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Aug 15, 2022 9:50 am
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Scott Troublefield and New Vision.
Far out behind the crowded audience at Goffe Street Park, beyond still the stragglers who spread out among the opposing baseball diamond’s outfield, tucked just inside the entryway of the third-base dugout, a woman with gray hair and blue Nikes called out: “Amen!”
The Sunday sun had set, but the sound of gospel from the stage still echoed as far as Crescent Street. The woman, silhouetted by the park floodlights, said she was taking her church from all the way back there.
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Laura Glesby |
Aug 10, 2022 11:49 am
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Developers and officials break Beulah ground.
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Sustainable, affordable housing envisioned for 340 Dixwell.
Faith leaders, politicians, and investors shoveled a pile of ceremonial dirt, breaking ground on a soon-to-rise apartment complex that will be sustainable not only for the earth, but for low-income families.
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Thomas Breen |
Aug 2, 2022 1:45 pm
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A draft rendering of the Living Village addition, at the top left of the map, as it fits into the Divinity School's existing structure.
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Yale’s plans to build a new eco-friendly dormitory for divinity school students moved ahead, as alders unanimously signed off on a resolution stating that the project doesn’t require any amendment to the university’s central campus parking plan.
