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Amistad House Needs A Hand

by Allan Appel | May 4, 2012 12:03 pm

A house that feeds and puts a roof over the heads of the poor is sprouting disintegrating shingles—and needs a new roof itself.

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Palm Sunday Meets The Big Easy

by Allan Appel | Apr 2, 2012 7:33 am

Parasols joined the traditional palm fronds along with a tuba and a tap dancer as New Haveners marked Palm Sunday with a full-throated New Orleans-style jazz parade.

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Trayvon’s Killing Sparks Hoodie Sunday

by Allan Appel | Mar 25, 2012 3:58 pm | Comments (9)

The reverend wore a black hoodie. On either side of his cruciform lectern stood a small package of Skittles and a tall can of iced tea.

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Special Report: A Day In The Life Of Fair Haven, East Rock And Newhallville

by Thomas MacMillan, Allan Appel, Uma Ramiah, Caitlin Emma, Michelle Turner, Ariela Martin | Mar 21, 2012 11:18 pm | Comments (1)

From dreams pursued on cracked asphalt to a first-day-of-spring surprise hatched in a laundromat, from a gender-bending “fresh” cut to a 46-pound meat bargain and stood-up Mormons on a Fillmore Street stoop, the Independent spent a day tracking the rhythms of neighborhood life.

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Murray Lender, 81

by Paul Bass | Mar 21, 2012 9:27 pm | Comments (1)

Murray Lender—a Jewish community leader who with his brothers changed the way America eats by taking a Hill neighborhood-bred bagel operation nationwide, then used his wealth to enrich causes from Quinnipiac University to the Jewish Community Center—died Wednesday. He was 81 years old.

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What’s A Lego Doing In Shul?

by Ariela Martin | Mar 8, 2012 8:43 am

The carnival-like atmosphere of the Jewish holiday of Purim was on display at synagogues in town as the one-day celebration began Wednesday night. People of all ages donned costumes to commemorate the story of Queen Esther, who helped her fellow Jews overcome a plot to exterminate them in the ancient Persian Empire.

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Klein & Cole Coats—For Charity

by Caitlin Emma | Mar 1, 2012 12:02 pm | Comments (1)

Bethany Watkins’ church had just finished giving away its winter coats from last year when the Burlington Coat Factory called in late January. The outlet had 300 brand new coats to give away.

Watkins (pictured above) rifled through the coats on Wednesday as Immanuel Baptist Church prepared to sell the new stock to help two local charities.

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MLK “Love March” Reveals The Invisible Man

by Allan Appel | Jan 16, 2012 9:08 am | Comments (19)

A hearse traveling through East Rock had no body inside—but 125 shouting bodies accompanying it.

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A TSA Miracle

by Staff | Dec 23, 2011 1:31 pm

A Chanukkah getaway from New Haven was almost foiled at the airport security line.

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Chanukkah Celebrated With Oil—& Sheetrock

by Allan Appel | Dec 22, 2011 2:56 pm | Comments (2)

Rabbi Mendy Hecht celebrated not only the restoration of a temple in Jerusalem 2176 years ago—but the modern-day restoration of an historic shul on Orchard Street.

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