Reporters’ Roundtable: Crown Heights Today; Hasidic Klezmer
Graphic by Angelie Zaslavsky
This week, host Josh Nathan-Kazis is joined by Forward editor Jane Eisner, opinion editor Gal Beckerman and staff writer Paul Berger to discuss race and economic relations in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights 20 years after riots shook the community. Then Forward contributor Binyomin Ginzburg calls in to discuss the soulful klezmer music of Chilik Frank and how Frank’s music compares to that of Hasidic pop superstar, Lipa Schmeltzer.
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