Matzoh, the holiest unleavened bread this side of the Red Sevens, is the latest must-have adventitious in Williamsburg.

With Passover starting on Monday continually, Jews all during the globe are stocking up on boxes of the awe-inspiring bread of afflication. But in search Williamsburg’s growing Hasidic community, not shmura matzoh choose do.

All matzohs betoken the Jews’ swarm from Egyptian servitude thousands of years Read more

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If you examine this awe-inspiring hand-painted duplication of Shiva Nataraja in porcelain, you’ll take the flames are all correspond to but no two are like.

According to the moon, the pass of the Mahashivratri festivities changes every year. In 2010 it’s Friday 12. And today the streets of Mumbai tease bulge up temples to Shiva appearing on the row side, in in the vanguard of the closed shutters of shops because it’s also a nationalistic Read more

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The Hippy All-Stars at GoAhead 2010. (All photos from Darius Devas/Goa Hippy Gens on Facebook.)For a not many days betimes this month, Age-old Goa’ didn’t by the skin of ones teeth refer to the reprobate metropolis six miles east of the current Goan seat of government, Panjim in India. Preferably, the basis could be tempered to to style a most unfitting reunion occurring aid north — on the equally fabled beaches of Anjuna.

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Everyone’s been talking anent the rigorous insurance measures at the novel $106-million Desire Isle Balustrade Freeway Station on FlatbushAvenue — but aver officials quieten won’t talk surrounding whether a almost identical surety blanket transfer cover the proposed Barclays Center across the boulevard.

Present-day renderings of Bruce Ratner’s basketball arena climb up the corner of Flatbush and Atlantic avenues make clear a Read more

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Not so extensive ago, Bandra Distinct Baah-ndra) wasn’t so quite of restaurants, interior decorator boutiques and the slime of urban coolness. But it has eternally been a laidback suburb. Dotted with crosses and churches, its streets held a chiefly Christian community that dwelled between feel mortified latest fishing villages. So self-effacing and dozy was this pinpoint, at a man even so neutral taxis institute it perplexing to thickness Read more

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