While members of the Jewish community disagree among themselves, relations between Crown Heights Jewish and non-Jewish leaders appear to have improved since the riots.
While the majority of the document addresses issues other than Israel, the section on foreign policy calls Israel “a state that practices systematic discrimination."
The African-American lawmaker, who had objected to city funding for a Holocaust memorial, alleged that the man said, “(Expletive), I will blow your (expletive) brains out for talking about my Jewish ancestors.”