This is the Forward’s coverage of the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn.
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News Brooklyn Eruv Feud Spreads to Park Slope — Second Ritual Boundary Vandalized
A feud between Hasidic and Modern Orthodox Jews over eruvs, the ritual boundaries that allow more mobility on the Sabbath, has apparently spread from the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights to nearby Park Slope. The Greater Crown Heights eruv has been cut down twice in the two last weeks. Now the adjacent Park Slope Eruv…
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News Controversial Brooklyn Eruv for Modern Orthodox Vandalized Amid Dispute With Chabad
The ritual barrier was not approved by rabbinic authorities
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News Welcome to the Orthodox Prayer Group Where Women Lead — and Men Sit Behind Mechitza
The doors are open to everyone at Shabbat services held on the ground floor of this Nostrand Avenue building in Brooklyn. But, unlike most Orthodox spaces, here it’s the women who lead prayers. Men? They can sit in the back. “Men are welcome,” said Nechama Levy, 32, who organized the new prayer group. “But this…
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Fast Forward 11-Year-Old Black Boy Charged With Torching Crown Heights Jewish School Bus
An 11-year-old boy has been charged with hate crimes and police were searching for five other youths suspected of helping torch a school bus outside a Jewish school in Brooklyn, a spokeswoman for the New York Police Department said on Tuesday. Surveillance video showed six youths packing cardboard into the yellow school bus parked outside…
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Fast Forward Bus Torched in Front of Crown Heights Jewish Girls School
— A school bus outside a Jewish school in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn was set on fire. The bus went up in flames on Sunday evening in front of the Beth Rivkah School for Girls in the haredi Orthodox Jewish neighborhood. There were no injuries. Police believe the fire was started by a group…
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Fast Forward Arrest Made in Second Attack on Jews in Crown Heights
A Brooklyn man accused of punching an Orthodox Jewish man and knocking the cellphone from his hand was arrested. Christian Rojas, 36, allegedly assaulted the Jewish man, who was on his way to synagogue in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, early Wednesday morning, WABC News reported. The assault took place just hours after the…
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Fast Forward Jewish Paramedic Stabbed in Brooklyn — Hate Crime Eyed
A member of a Jewish volunteer emergency service was stabbed in the neck in Brooklyn and police were investigating the attack as a possible anti-Semitic hate crime. The man, identified by the New York Post as David Katz, 34, a volunteer for Hatzalah, radioed in his own injury after the attack on Tuesday night in…
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Fast Forward Orthodox Woman Suing Gym for Not Letting Her Work Out in Skirt
An Orthodox Brooklyn woman is suing the Lucille Roberts fitness chain for denying her entry to a kickboxing class because she was wearing a skirt. Yosefa Jalal, 25, said she was harassed, threatened with arrest and had her membership revoked from the women’s-only gym when she insisted on following Judaism’s standards of modesty. “I think…
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