crown heights

A changing Crown Heights marks 25 years since Brooklyn ‘pogrom’

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.

Brooklyn eruv vandalism being investigated as hate crime

The eruv erected in mid-June by a modern Orthodox congregation and opposed by leaders of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement was vandalized in multiple locations on two days in July.

Lubavitch rabbis issue edict against modern Orthodox eruv in Crown Heights

The dispute over the symbolic Shabbat demarcation, which serves a Modern Orthodox community, reflects demographic changes in the Brooklyn neighborhood.