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Crown Heights Bites Back held a vigil to commemorate the killing of a Black child that sparked antisemitic riots.
Crown Heights activists blame 'Zionist White supremacists' for car collision in which Black boy, aged 7, was killed 34 years ...
A small protest in Crown Heights on Tuesday evening sought to bring back the tensions of the 1991 anti-Jewish riots, but the ...
An extremist activist group had organized the rally as a “vigil” for Gavin Cato, a Black boy who died after he was hit by a car driven by Jewish driver in 1991. The car accident set off the Crown ...
Crown Heights — recently in the news because of violent anti-Semitic attacks — is home to followers of the Chabad Lubavitch movement. They have lived in the neighborhood since the early 1940s.
Then Mayor David Dinkins, center, looks on while a Jewish man and a Black man argue during riots in Crown Heights, August 1991. (New York Daily News Archive/Getty Images) ...
Video shows hundreds of men defying social distancing restrictions by crowding into a Crown Heights synagogue for prayer services ahead of the Jewish High Holy Days—against state health ...
“I knew of Crown Heights as the Lubavitch center of the world, and to be frank, I have family members in the Chabad community who have no idea why I live here. They’re very confused,” she said.
He was educated at yeshivas in Crown Heights and Montreal. In 1968, Kotlarsky was appointed to work in outreach at Chabad’s educational arm, Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch, according to a statement ...
The Crown Heights Jewish community used to turn out for elections at a high rate in the 1950s and 1960s, Behrman said, but turnout declined because people felt that their votes did not have an impact.
Thousands of people gathered in Crown Heights on Wednesday, June 5 to pay their respects to Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, a beloved key figure in the local community and a pioneer of Jewish life around the ...