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Right to Worship Resolution passes NY City Council by 38-11
Council steamrolls over Speaker Christine Quinn’s opposition to resolution.
City Council expected to vote today on allowing houses of worship to meet in public schools
Speaker Christine Quinn says that she will allow vote.
Andy Mineo’s Heroes
The NYC rapper is on fire at an informal hip hop gathering/cypher in Washington Heights.
The Rabbi’s Girls present “Songs of Religion & Rebellion” & “Shira’s Belated 1970s Bat Mitzvah Dance Party!”
An irreverent, often hilarious musical show on the paradox of growing up religious and rebellious in the 1970′s. Celebrate Shavuot with Shira Dicker on Tuesday, May 14, at The JCC’s all night blow-out TiKKUN, Amsterdam & 76th Street. Comedy, song and blow-out with Shira & DJ REL starts just after the night turns into Wednesday at 12:30 am!
From the Diary of our first foreign correspondent: How sympathetic objectivity helped me in Indonesia
This kind of trust in my sources gave me the courage to leap into uncharted territories.
Jet Pharoahs say, “Let it be done. Tebow must go.”
Tim Tebow posted a Scripture verse on Twitter after being told on Monday that the NY Jets were releasing him: “Proverbs 3:5-6: Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.” The trade for Tebow [...]
NYC pastor’s cultural revolution reaches Kupang, Indonesia
The Big Apple has become an exporter of religious ideas, regaining a role that it had in the 19th Century. I came across this phenomenon while reporting for A Journey through NYC religions from a far-flung outpost on an island in Indonesia. Following up my reporting on Indonesians in New York City, in January I [...]
George Beverly Shea, gospel singer at Billy Graham’s crusades in NYC & elsewhere, February 1, 1909 – April 16, 2013
Video of Shea singing his signature hymn “How Great Thou Art” at the 1969 NYC Billy Graham Crusade. In the famous 1957 NYC Crusade he sang it 108 consecutive nights. It was probably the first time that Shea sang the song for a television broadcast.
From Pepper Street Gang to Glorious Brooklyn: Jackie Robinson’s faith journey
The Pepper Street gang created an epidemic of petty theft and malicious mischief. The members weren’t serious gangbangers like those in south Los Angeles today. Rather, they were a bunch of kids hanging together and getting in trouble. But to the store owners who were the targets of their small thefts, the car owners [...]
