Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Brooklyn, a borough of New York City home to a major population of Hasidic Jews.
Brooklyn
The Latest
-
Fast Forward Synagogue Window Smashed On Shabbat In Latest Attack Targeting Brooklyn Jews
(JTA) — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that Brooklyn synagogues will receive more security after an attack on a Chabad synagogue on Friday night. “The NYPD is adding security to this synagogue and others nearby,” the mayor said Sunday in a tweet which linked to a local article about the attack on…
-
Fast Forward Albany Democrats To Simcha Felder: We Don’t Need You, We Don’t Want You
New York State Democrats are ready to take over the majority — and one of their first moves is letting Brooklyn Senator Simcha Felder know he is not welcome back into their conference, the New York Daily News reported. Senate Democratic spokesman Mike Murphy told the Daily News that the group will not need Felder’s…
-
News The Boxing Ring With A Mezuzah On The Door
Saturday mornings are busy in Brooklyn’s Sheepshead Bay neighborhood, as residents run errands and grab meals. The Underground Boxing Gym on Avenue X is strangely quiet, though. No one is sparring in the ring, or punching the heavy bags that hang from the ceiling, as they are Sunday through Friday. “We’re not open on Saturday,”…
-
News The Rise And Fall And Rise Of Jewish Comedian Leah Forster
Leah Forster is the Orthodox world’s favorite lesbian Jewish comedian. Admittedly, there’s not much competition for that title. But for nearly a decade, Forster was one of the most popular entertainers in the community, until she walked away from the business and her strict ultra-observant lifestyle. Now she’s making a comeback in both the religious…
-
Fast Forward Man Charged With Hate Crime For Punching Hasidic Jew In Brooklyn
(JTA) — New York police have arrested a man alleged to have punched a Hasidic Jewish man in the head, and charged him with a hate crime. In addition to the hate crime charge, Eric Gerena, 32, who was arrested on Tuesday, was charged with assault in the third degree. The attack on Friday night…
-
News Is A String Of Attacks Against Brooklyn Jews Really About Anti-Semitism?
Mindel Zaetz’s husband was chased down the street last week by a group of men while he was on his way home from work, just off of Eastern Parkway, the broad thoroughfare that runs through the middle of Crown Heights, in Brooklyn. “He came home really spooked,” said Zaetz, 29, as she was on her…
-
Fast Forward 3 Large Swastikas Spray-Painted In Brooklyn Neighborhood
(JTA) — At least three large swastikas were spray-painted in a Brooklyn neighborhood. The swastikas discovered Monday in Greenpoint were painted within a block of each other. Two were accompanied by the letters “WP,” which stands for White Power. Two of the swastikas later were crossed out with red paint and the words “No Hate” spray-painted…
-
Fast Forward 2 Jewish Boys Attacked In Brooklyn In Separate Incidents
NEW YORK (JTA) — Two Orthodox Jewish boys were attacked in Brooklyn in one day. A passerby repeatedly punched a 9-year-old in the face on Sunday evening in the Williamsburg neighborhood, police told the New York Post. The boy was walking with his mother when the attack occurred in the heavily Hasidic area. Half an…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
News Trump antisemitism executive order invokes anti-KKK law and targets ‘leftist, anti-American’ universities
- 2
Culture Is Elon Musk Jewish?
- 3
Forward Newsletters What the ADL should have said in response to Elon Musk’s salute
- 4
Fast Forward As latest Elon Musk controversy swirls, some American Jews come to his defense
In Case You Missed It
-
Fast Forward In Gadi Mozes, the octogenarian freed from Gaza, Israelis see an icon of their country’s hardy ‘kibbutznik’ spirit
-
News What Trump’s antisemitism executive order actually means for college students and schools
-
Opinion Pete Hegseth’s belief in Christian dominion should deeply trouble American Jews
-
Books 92 years ago today, Hitler took power. This historian wants us to see the lessons we’ve ignored from his rise
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
