This is the Forward’s coverage of the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn.
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Fast Forward Man Who Attacked Jewish Father Of 9 Hit With Hate Crimes Charge
(JTA) — The man accused of attacking an identifiably Jewish man walking home from Shabbat services in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn was indicted on several charges including committing a hate crime. James Vincent, 40, was arraigned on Wednesday in Brooklyn Supreme Court on a 17-count indictment. He is charged among other things, with…
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News Crown Heights Attacks Spread Fear But Officials See No Trend
A string of violent incidents in an Orthodox neighborhood in Brooklyn has left some Jewish locals on edge, but communal officials say there’s no apparent connection among the attacks. At least three members of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic community have been attacked in or around Crown Heights, Brooklyn, since mid-April. Police have charged a man with…
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Fast Forward Chabad Yeshiva Student Kicked And Punched In Crown Heights
(JTA) — For the third time in three weeks, a person affiliated with the Chabad-Lubavitch movement was assaulted in Crown Heights. The victim, a 22-year-old yeshiva student, was walking home from the Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights when he was attacked at around midnight on Tuesday night. The Crown Heights Info…
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Fast Forward Arrest Made In Crown Heights Attack On Orthodox Jewish Man
(JTA) — Police arrested a man accused of attacking an identifiably Jewish man who was walking home from Shabbat services in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn. James Vincent, 40, was arrested on Friday morning after he appeared in Brooklyn Criminal Court on an unrelated case, the New York Daily News reported. He was charged…
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Fast Forward Jewish Man Beaten, Choked In Crown Heights While Walking Home From Synagogue
(JTA) — An identifiably Jewish man was beaten and choked while walking home from Shabbat services in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn. It is the second such attack in two weeks. The Jewish man was walking home from prayer services at about 1:30 on Saturday afternoon. He told the CrownHights.info news website that he…
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Community What Do Jews Owe Crown Heights?
In 2012, Hannah Roodman endeavored to show Crown Heights, Brooklyn through the eyes of its Chabad and West Indian residents. In the years since she directed Project 2×1, she’s had time to reflect on the changing neighborhood and our responsibilities as young Jews. “My hope was that the Crown Heights Jewish community would acknowledge that…
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Life I’m Orthodox, Broke And Proud
My wife and I are broke. Don’t worry, it’s always been that way. Ever since we decided to sell all our stuff and move to Israel, and then sell all our stuff there and move back, we’ve been broke. Not like, broke broke — please don’t misunderstand. We’re not hungry or homeless. We’re middle-class broke….
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Community Remembering The Carnage And Crises Of The Crown Heights Riots
Twenty five years ago, on October 29, 1992, Lemrick Nelson Jr. was acquitted of the murder of Yankel Rosenbaum. That event — as well as others that both preceded and followed it — had a significant impact on my life, stirring up a host of personal memories and evoking a chapter in the larger story…
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