Crown heights
“It should call out to every Jew:” Crown Heights rallies for Black Lives Matter
“This is such a blessing. I’ve been here through riots and we had different uprisings and different things that went on in the Crown Heights community between Blacks and Jews. This to me is, I’m almost choked,” said Felicia Gomes, 55, a lifelong Crown Heights resident after stumbling upon a Black Lives Matter solidarity march in her neighborhood organized by the community’s Jewish residents.
Ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods not among hardest-hit by coronavirus: city data
The city released the data the same day that the New York Police Department shut down a Brooklyn yeshiva that was secretly teaching 60 children.
Are high rates of mental illness connected to a spike in anti-Semitic violence?
“There are people, some of whom have mental illness, who are vulnerable to influence by the trends that are occurring around them in society.”
Jews unite at rally against anti-Semitism, but diverge on police response
Will more NYPD officers stop anti-Semitic assaults in New York? Some Orthodox Jews say yes, but other Jews and people of color disagree.
Guardian Angels patrol outside Shabbat services amid Brooklyn hate crime surge
A boy named Berel, age 9, was unimpressed. “Eh, we see a lot of police these days,” he said. “We’ve got it at our school, too.”
Jewish Teens Attacked By Group Of Men In Brooklyn
The group smacked one teen in the head, knocking off his kippah. They then snatched the kippah off the head of the other boy.
Jewish Man Slapped And Called ‘Dirty Jew’ In Brooklyn
The incident, and a second on Friday night in Borough Park, are being investigated as a hate crime.
2nd Assault This Week Against Orthodox Jewish Man In Crown Heights
A delivery truck driver was injured when a rock shattered his vehicle’s side window three days after a rabbi was hit with a stone in the face.
Remembering Berel Raskin The Fishmonger, An Icon Of Hasidic Crown Heights For Decades
Berel, or Shlomo, Raskin was a mainstay on Kingston Avenue for over six decades.