Tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men and women rallied on Water Street in lower Manhattan on Sunday to protest the Israeli Parliament’s proposal to draft Haredi men into the Israeli army.
The demonstrators gathered in an area the length of 10 city blocks, between Broad Street and Fulton Street. Read more
In the center of a large open Hindu temple in Queens, New York, a gleaming black statue of Ganesha sits enshrined in front of a large audience of worshipers. For the gathered believers, it is not simply a piece of stone, but a deity, a manifestation of a god on earth. Read more
Two young girls at the B.A.P.S. temple in Flushing, Queens.
A game of Taboo is in progress, and it’s getting aggressive.
“What!? How could you not know the answer to that one?”
“Ok, he’s a blue man,” says the pre-teen girl holding the clue cards. All at once her team pounces with the answer. “Krishna!” “Krishna!” Read more