Israeli drama film ‘Concerned Citizen’ tackles gentrification and race issues in Tel Aviv
It takes place in the neighborhood of Neve Sha’anan, the south Tel Aviv neighborhood that’s home to many of the country’s foreign workers and asylum seekers
It takes place in the neighborhood of Neve Sha’anan, the south Tel Aviv neighborhood that’s home to many of the country’s foreign workers and asylum seekers
Editor’s note: In observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the Forward is resurfacing some of our recent coverage related to the Black-Jewish experience and racial justice. This article originally appeared in July, 2020. If you want to come to grips with the way race, injustice and real estate intertwine in America today, a good…
Adrian Benepe, the president and CEO of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, acknowledged during a Wednesday night virtual meeting with supporters that he was coming to them with an unusual request. “We are really going against precedent,” he said. “I’m not aware of a single other cultural institution on city property that has ever taken as…
The two statements were issued hours apart on Friday, one echoing the other in their desire to end the uneasiness in Montclair, N.J. Rabbis and cantors signed one statement. Rabbis, cantors and African-American clergy signed the other. Neither would have been written if a local black leader had not sideswiped the town with comments at…
Kosher restaurant Asher Caffe and Lounge is being accused of neighborhood gentrification by protesters in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles. Boyle Heights has been a hotspot for gentrification protests lately, but the newest target of activist ire isn’t your usual overpriced, artisanal coffee shop. In fact, Asher Caffe is kosher. But gentrification wasn’t the only reason…
In 2015, Union Theological Seminary, a venerable Protestant institution in Manhattan, announced it would be opening up its campus to luxury condominium development to help pay for $125 million worth of repairs and upgrades. In late 2017, after prodding from a local community group, the school pledged $5 million to help keep local residents from…
The history of gentrification and white flight in Crown Heights has a surprising figure at its center: the Chabad-Lubavitch rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson. As the leader of one of the most influential Jewish groups in New York, Schneerson had an outsized influence on the politics and population of Crown Heights, which contains the headquarters of…
A developer’s plan to erect two luxury buildings in a low-slung residential part of Brooklyn with large Hasidic and black communities sparked the latest wave of concern over skyrocketing rents in the neighborhood, which threatens the two groups who had a history of tension, culminating in the Crown Heights riots of the earl ’90s. Cornell…
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