Parents can’t stomach ban on bake sales in the schools
By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke
A bowl of homemade oatmeal chocolate chip cookies sat on a back table next to a draft of a resolution opposing the Department of Education’s bake sale ban at a meeting of Community Board 2’s Social Service Committee last Tuesday.

Say it isn’t so, Barack! Uphold law on terror trials 
By Ed Gold
After all the fine speeches about the rule of law, adherence to the Constitution, our nation’s devotion to civilian leadership and our federal court system, reports from Washington indicate Obama may be caving in to the Cheney gang, which insists all jihadists accused of criminal activities should be tried before a military tribunal rather than a federal court.

Police just went bananas, says L.E.S. photographer
By Lincoln Anderson
Clayton Patterson, the longtime Lower East Side documentarian, got a phone call on the afternoon of Sat., March 13, from an Orchard St. resident, who told him there had been a stabbing in a building on the block between Houston and Stanton Sts.

‘Their spirit is in us’; Museum center work starts
By Albert Amateau
Officials and friends of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum celebrated the groundbreaking last Thursday for a new visitors and education center at the corner of Delancey and Orchard Sts.

Mazel tov! Judaica store marks 50 years on Avenue
By Lesley Sussman 
Yakov Melmed’s memory turns back to a time in college when he first came to work for his father at the Ben Ari Arts Jewish religious articles store, 11 Avenue A, which this month is celebrating 50 years at its East Village location.

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