by | Oct 16, 2019 4:39 pm | Comments (0)
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Weekly Friday prayers at the masjid.
At a Jummah prayer service, leaders of Dixwell Avenue’s Abdul-Majid Karim Hasan Islamic Center made an announcement that heralds a new chapter for the Muslim community: the center will honor a Nation of Islam leader at its annual banquet in November.
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Attorney Willie Dow with Greer on Tuesday.
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The jurors head toward Regal Beagle for post-verdict lunch.
Rabbi Daniel Greer, one of New Haven’s most prominent religious figures, was led out of a courtroom in handcuffs Wednesday afternoon after a jury found him guilty of four counts of risk of injury to a minor in a high-profile child-rape case.
by | Sep 19, 2019 8:42 pm | Comments (0)
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R.S.A. stares at Rabbi Greer after testifying against him in court.
Det. Kristine Cuddy, who testified on Thursday..
Rabbi Daniel Greer sexually forced himself on another 14-year-old, caressing his rear during lessons and attempting to kiss him during a late-night outing, the former student testified under oath.
by | Sep 18, 2019 9:50 pm | Comments (3)
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Gavriel Fagin.
Many victims of childhood sexual abuse wait years to report what happened — especially when that occurs in an insular community.
Forensic psychologist Gavriel Fagan — an Orthodox Jew who works with other Orthodox Jews who experience abuse — made that case Wednesday in the criminal trial of accused child-rapist Rabbi Daniel Greer.
Fagin was one of two forensic psychologists who testified on day three of Greer’s trial in Superior Court on Church Street, addressing a central issue in the case.
by | Sep 18, 2019 8:05 am | Comments (10)
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Illustration with proposed sign. Current facade (inset).
And New Haven’s zoning board proclaimed: Let there be light!
Let there be signage!
Let there even be halo-lit, illuminated signage.
Only let it not be 65 square feet. That is forbidden.
by | Sep 17, 2019 8:46 pm | Comments (2)
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Dow with his client, Rabbi Daniel Greer.
Why did an alleged victim of childhood sexual abuse wait nearly 10 years to contact law enforcement? Why did he never share the graphic details before then with his wife, his friend and his therapist? What was in it for him to bring it up now?
by | Aug 23, 2019 7:46 am | Comments (3)
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Rabbi Daniel Greer with bail bondsman after July 2017 arrest.
A panel of six has been selected to weigh the accusations that Rabbi Daniel Greer sexually abused a teenage student at his boarding school almost 15 years ago.
by | Aug 20, 2019 7:40 am | Comments (1)
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Willie Dow leaves court, after the first day of jury selection in Rabbi Daniel Greer’s criminal case.
It took nearly three hours to find the first juror who committed to impartially deciding the case of whether Rabbi Daniel Greer sexually assaulted a former teenager student over several years.
by | Jul 16, 2019 2:08 pm | Comments (24)
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Rev. Kimber and Mayor Harp join hands in campaign prayer.
The Rev. Boise Kimber led two dozen black and Hispanic pastors Tuesday in endorsing Mayor Toni Harp’s reelection — and committed to knocking on doors, handing out flyers, raising money, and running social media promotions on her behalf.
by | Jul 15, 2019 7:39 am | Comments (0)
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“It’s not home but it’s special,” said Alton Johnson who attended and performed at the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church for its annual State of South Carolina Gospel Brunch Fundraiser.
by | Jul 8, 2019 7:59 am | Comments (2)
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Rabbi Hyman, Rabbi Bistritzky, and members of the Rosenberg family at Sunday’s reopening.
Thirty people gathered in an Edgewood back yard Sunday to mark the reopening of a communal mikvah, which allows observant Jews to perform religious obligations.
by | Jul 7, 2019 5:42 pm | Comments (11)
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There was dancing in the streets of Beaver Hills as New Haven’s growing Hasidic community celebrated the completion of a new Torah scroll.
by and | Jul 5, 2019 8:52 am | Comments (2)
Almost every Friday evening, the Grace and St. Peter’s Episcopal Church at 2927 Dixwell Ave. gives back to the Hamden community by hosting “Dinner for a Dollar.” The tradition has been going on for eight years and is aimed at helping people get a nutritious, cheap and good tasting meal.
Continue reading ‘Hamden Church Celebrates Eight Years Of Dollar Dinners’
by | Jun 30, 2019 4:53 pm | Comments (40)
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Elicker (above) addresses Bethel congregants (below).
Days after an opposing campaign attacked his wife and her fellow federal prosecutors as Trump co-conspirators, mayoral candidate Justin Elicker took to the pulpit Sunday to urge New Haveners to transcend “political rhetoric” and “come together as a city.”
by | May 17, 2019 5:36 pm | Comments (3)
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Sumeyya Sahim, only in the U.S. six months from her native Istanbul, Turkey, arrived early at the Diyanet Mosque Friday. Five days after someone started a fire there, the congregation was ready to gather again in communal prayer.
by | May 16, 2019 10:21 pm | Comments (2)
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Serra and her mother Aysegul Uzun. “I want to come together,” Uzun said, “because this is my home.”
With Turkish and American flags waving side by side, hundreds gathered outside the Diyanet Mosque on Middletown Avenue Thursday evening for a prayer vigil and collective demonstration of interfaith solidarity four days after someone intentionally set the Islamic place of worship on fire.
by | May 16, 2019 7:58 am | Comments (0)
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Ercan Uzun and Ersoy Musn outside Diyanet Mosque on Wednesday. Below: The mosque at 531 Middletown Ave.
Ercan Uzun and Ersoy Mus stood outside the Diyanet Mosque on Wednesday, reflecting on the emotional roller-coaster that the mosque’s 300 members have gone through in the few days since Sunday’s fire at the 531 Middletown Ave. place of worship.
Continue reading ‘Mosque Has Insurance; Donations Top $114K’
by | May 15, 2019 4:32 pm | Comments (1)
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Westville Kosher Market co-founders Yuval and Rachel Hamenachem.
Three days before Passover, a longtime customer of Westville Kosher Market called Rachel Hamenachem in a panic. Her husband, a celebrated Yale professor, had just died. Now she needed enough food to feed 100 people who would be coming to her house to sit shiva.
So Hamenachem and her husband Yuval stayed up all night cooking. The co-owners of the decades-old Upper Westville market made sure their customer, and friend, got what she needed in time for the week-long ritual mourning.
by | May 7, 2019 3:57 pm | Comments (4)
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Seated before the New Haven Oratorio Choir, artistic director Daniel Shaw raised his hand. The choir stood silent. Shaw asked pianist Alexis ZIngale to play a few notes on the piano so the choir members could hear their pitches.
“Measure 18,” he said, and gave the signal. Section by section, the choir members fell into the music, unspooling lines of sweeping harmonies that filled the wide open space of the Church of the Redeemer on Whitney Avenue with song.
by | May 5, 2019 7:39 pm | Comments (12)
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Keynoter Tagan Engel at Saturday’s ceremony..
A granddaughter of Holocaust survivors helped New Haven commemorate that genocide by tying it to other horrors in history.
Continue reading ‘The Third Generation Keeps Holocaust Story Alive, & Relevant’
by | Apr 15, 2019 4:42 pm | Comments (6)
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In one hand he had his cell phone, with mom on the line for shopping advice. In the other hand was a handout with a Westville rabbi’s admonition against crossing a picket line to buy food for the Feast of Freedom. His basket was empty.
There David stood amid walls of macaroons, white fish, and grape juice in Aisle 13 of the Amity Stop & Shop, pondering the fifth question added to this year’s traditional Passover four questions: To buy? Or not to buy?
Continue reading ‘Let My Matzah Go: Stop & Shop Purchases Deemed Not Kosher For Passover’
by | Apr 7, 2019 9:47 pm | Comments (27)
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Guns forged into garden tools on the Green Sunday.
Two thousands years after Jesus turned water into wine, two of his loyal followers erected a forge outside a New Haven church Sunday to turn a rifle into a rake — then offered a Christian take on the power of the gun versus the power of the cross.
by | Apr 1, 2019 7:40 am | Comments (0)
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Some people dressed as fruit. Men showed up as women. Old danced with young.
by | Mar 29, 2019 1:04 pm | Comments (1)
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Jeffrey Spitz Cohan at WNHH FM; organization logo.
Jeffrey Spitz Cohan has an idea for how to enjoy the upcoming Passover seder in true Jewish tradition — avoiding not just leavened bread, but meat, eggs and dairy as well. And lovin’ it.
by | Mar 8, 2019 8:45 am | Comments (5)
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Mila Nishball, 97, who fled Czechoslovakia after the Nazi occupation.
As a child growing up near Prague, Mila Nishball saw her weekly trips to the synagogue as a chance to gab with her girlfriends rather than to participate in her family’s religious tradition.
But today, Nishball still tears up when she recalls visiting the site in the late 1980s to discover that the synagogue was gone. It had been torn down by the Nazis after she’d gone into hiding and then fled Czechoslovakia with help from an American-born boy.