Jewish institutions have sprung up in neighborhoods around Prospect Park to serve new areas where young, liberal families have moved, according to the Jewish Week. To attract a more diverse demographic, many organizations have adapted their offerings to welcome people of different faiths and backgrounds.
The Dominican Republic has re-instituted a law from 1973 that prohibits the importing of used clothes. With Dominicans in New York often sending clothes to family on the island, the ban has triggered concern in the local community, according to a report translated from El Diario/La Prensa.
Today we have a delicious collection of food-themed articles: a Yiddish farm upstate; Colombian fruit juices and a new food court in Jackson Heights; the Korean-American inventor of a nifty new sushi container; and a Korean “food missionary.” All that, and a new survey on the sex lives of Hispanics.
A run-in with police a decade ago started the activist Dennis Flores on his path to filming and monitoring police misconduct — and teaching others to do the same, reported El Diario La Prensa.
The celebrity chef Vikas Khanna came to America 11 years ago with just a few hundred dollars in his pocket. After years washing dishes in hole-in-the-wall Indian restaurants and handing out flyers, he has risen to the pinnacle of his profession as executive chef at the Michelin-starred Junoon restaurant, and even cooked for the Obamas at a fund-raiser last month. But he hasn’t forgotten the tough times, when he sometimes relied on soup kitchens for sustenance. In the video, Khanna also demonstrates a quick and delicious recipe for a tamarind-spiked vegetable stir-fry.
Caffe Capri, run for almost 40 years by Sarah Devita and her brother-in-law Joseph Rinaldi, is an institution in the Italian immigrant community of East Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Videographer Casimir Nozkowski offers a glimpse of the coffee shop, its regulars and the iced coffee it is famous for.
After President Barack Obama’s announcement last Friday of two-year work permits for some undocumented young people, ethnic and community publications captured the celebrations and questions of students and immigrant community leaders.
Activists from the growing student movement for the DREAM Act cautiously applauded today’s news that President Barack Obama will implement many of its provisions — including 25-year-old Daniela Alulema, an Ecuadorian who has been unable to work legally since she graduated college. Christine Streich shot this video portrait for Voices of NY.
A pediatrician with 16 years of experience in Uzbekistan, Leonid Isakov struggled to became a board-certified doctor and open his own clinic in Brooklyn. Now his clinic’s waiting room is filled with his small patients, but Isakov has little time to spend with his own children. Natalia Osipova shot a video portrait of this hard-working immigrant entrepreneur for Voices of NY.
Marcelo Lucero’s attackers have been convicted, but thanks to a new documentary, his murder case is again in the limelight, three and a half years after a teenager stabbed the immigrant from Ecuador in Suffolk County for being Latino, Long Island Wins reported.
Bucking the tendency to assume that African-Americans are hostile to the LGBT community, community organizers from both groups, as well as others affected by police stop-and-frisk practices, plan to march silently together on Father’s Day.
The shooting death of Trayvon Martin by a neighborhood watch volunteer in Florida has brought on some public scrutiny of neighborhood watch groups across the country. The Brooklyn Ink tagged along recently with one such group patrolling the streets of the Echo Park neighborhood in the Bronx.
We couldn’t think of a better way to go into the long weekend than this video from Brooklyn Ink on the L.A.C.E. Leading Ladies prom dress giveaway, where the nonprofit donated high-end gowns to Brooklyn teens who would otherwise have missed their proms.
Details remain slim on the latest film that director Michel Gondry premiered at Cannes, which focuses on a group of Bronx teenagers. But a Hunts Point Express article from October about the filming offers some local insight into the film’s non-professional cast, its locales and the process behind “The We and the I.”
Nabin Laskar, the Bengali-American rapper known as Brooklyn Shanti, describes his path to hip-hop music and the challenges he faced along the way in a video interview with The Brooklyn Ink.
