Crown Heights
“I pledge to redouble my efforts to lead the fight against antisemitism in every corner of New York City,” the former governor stated.
Crown Heights Bites Back has distributed and posted virulently antisemitic material • NYPD, Shmira remain on alert.
“This was an antisemitic, Hamas-supporting rally,” said Rabbi Yaacov Behrman, a community leader in the Crown Heights neighborhood.
“Giving someone tefillin isn’t just handing them an object,” she told JNS. “It helps open up a whole world to them.”
The incident is not being investigated as a hate crime.
“I was so afraid of marrying the wrong person,” said Aviela, 31, of Tampa, Fla.
One of the Chassidic students told the “New York Post” that “being banned from 770 for three years is worse than jail.”
Security footage captures incident in the Crown Heights neighborhood as antisemitic attacks rise.
“We should be able to send our boys off to school on their bikes without worrying,” the victim’s mother told JNS.
“We will not tolerate any attacks against our Jewish communities,” stated Letitia James, the attorney general of New York.
Easily able to connect with others, he encountered thousands of people in his decades of travel on behalf of Chabad-Lubavitch, serving alternatively as rabbi, fundraiser and friend.
“The bad behavior of some extremists at the Chabad in Crown Heights should have been a local news issue at most,” wrote the journalist Yashar Ali.
