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Excerpt From Forward’s Coverage of the Riots
The marchers come up President from the corner of Utica Avenue — “the accident site,” as it has come to be known — where Gavin Cato was killed by the car from Rabbi Schneerson’s motorcade. They have just been listening to Al Sharpton and Sonny Carson — the Al Sharpton “of Tawana Brawley fame,” the…
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How Do We Talk to Our Children About Israel?
When I was a kid, starting from about the age of 7, I imagined that I would move to Israel. Obviously, I didn’t fully understand what “aliyah” really meant; I was just obsessed with the idea of the Jewish state. I plotted and planned, wrote short stories about an alter ego named Tamar who lived…
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August 26, 2011
100 Years Ago in The Forward Sarah Cohen, 18, was walking home from work on Manhattan’s Lower East Side when a thief accosted her, snatching her purse. The thief wasn’t fast enough, and Ms. Cohen managed to grab him. But along came another thief, apparently a friend of the first one, and grabbed the purse…
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‘Russian Dolls’ Gets Thumbs Down From Brighton Beach
Vulgar. Distasteful. Primitive. Ugly. These are just a few of the adjectives Russian speakers spat out in the Brighton Beach section of Brooklyn on August 12, the day after the premiere of Lifetime’s new reality show, “Russian Dolls.” But for all their feelings about the negative light in which the show cast them, some were…
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Living Apart in Crown Heights
Twenty years after the Crown Heights Riots, community leaders and activists in the diverse Brooklyn neighborhood are quick to emphasize that community relations are significantly better than in 1991, when three days of riots shook the neighborhood. But while hostilities and distrust between the Lubavitch and black communities may have dissipated or shifted, residents of…
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70 Years After Destruction, Memory of Lithuanian Community Lives in Diaspora
People from my grandfather’s hometown in Lithuania were known to be proud of their roots. It was said that if you asked a traveling Keidan Jew where he was from, he would puff up, thump his chest and say, “Me? I’m a Keidaner!” — so forcefully that outsiders gave them the Yiddish nickname “gribl in…
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Line Between Anti-Israel and Anti-Semitic Protests Splits AJC
As campus protests have continued against Israeli policies towards the Palestinians, and sometimes, against Israel itself, Jewish groups have been at odds over how to distinguish legitimate debate about Israel from anti-Semitism, and beyond that, at what point such protests may arguably constitute a violation of Jewish students’ civil rights. That debate, it’s now clear,…
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Birthright Plans Israel Trip for Alumni Journalists
On August 1, Taglit-Birthright Israel, the group that offers young Jews free 10-day tours to Israel, announced a new trip for a particular subset of Jews: professional journalists. More specifically, journalists who are alumni of Birthright. Since Birthright is in the business of fostering Diaspora Jews’ love for Israel (full disclosure: I went on such…
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After Riots, Jews Stayed in Crown Heights
On the morning of July 22, 1966, The New York Times pushed aside its coverage of the Vietnam War and the Gemini 10 space flight mission to devote its lead story to a riot that had struck the Brooklyn neighborhood of East New York the previous night. Next to the article appeared a photo of…
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Acccused Killer of Leiby Kletzky Speaks
The accused killer of Brooklyn boy Leiby Kletzky reportedly said he tries not to think about the brutal murder and says he “panicked,” but stopped short of apologizing for what he called “the incident.” Speaking out for the first time, Levi Aron told the Daily News that he has difficulty even thinking about the days…
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Summer Camps for Jewish Seniors Live On
Inside the main hall of the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center, seven campers formed a circle and tried their best to dance in step to the lively beat of a do-se-do coming from a boombox. Their instructor, Sylvia Rosenblatt, found them wanting. “No, listen to me,” she said sternly. “You’re mixing it up with the…
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