Yonitan Katz, Harpreet Singh Wahan and Roberta Bracco live incredibly different lives and have never met. Katz is from Crown Heights, Brooklyn, a Hasidic Jewish neighborhood in New York; Wahan is a Sikh from New Delhi, India, and lives in… Read More ›
As a group of female BYU students stood in a synagogue in the Hasidic Jewish community of Crown Heights in Brooklyn, peering through windows into a large room crowded with dozens of young men in black suits pouring over sacred… Read More ›
Editor’s note: Students were asked to read E.B. White’s famous essay “Here is New York” and then write an updated version in their own voice, paying homage to White. Between all who scuff deeper grooves into its streets; who add… Read More ›
By Julia Orellana-Funes BROOKLYN, New York — For Yonitan Katz, hipsters moving into Borough Park began to raise contention between them and his community. So what did a Chassidic Jew and hipster have in common that could unite everyone and… Read More ›
By Savannah Leavitt The Hassidic Jewish community in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, seeks to bring “heaven to earth” in the words of Yonitan Katz and Mayer Friedman –– two Hassidic rabbis in the community. Crown Heights is considered to be the… Read More ›
By Ariel Harmer On Jan. 15, Michelle Go headed down the stairs at the Times Square subway station in New York to take her daily train. She never made it home. While waiting for the train, a man rushed up… Read More ›
By Brendan Armstrong, Megan Brugger and Savannah Leavitt NEW YORK – BYU students on the Global Diplomacy and Journalism Study Abroad explored issues of religion, immigration and humanitarian work during their first week in New York On June 30, the… Read More ›
By Brendan Armstrong NEW YORK — Angry New Yorkers from all across the city gathered in Washington Square Park with signs and chanting on June 24 to protest a U.S. Supreme Court decision that overturned the landmark case Roe v…. Read More ›
By Gillian Marcucci The BYU students stepped into the apartment, and immediately felt like they had stepped back in time. Transported to the 1950s, they had entered into the home of the Epstein family. Located on the Lower East Side… Read More ›
By Hailey Deeds New York is home to more than 800 languages and 8.38 million people, according to the World Federation of United Nations Association and 2020 United States Census Bureau. The Jewish and Sikh community in New York City… Read More ›
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