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.

By Debra Nussbaum Cohen August 15, 2016 5:40 pm

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.

July 27, 2016 5:25 pm

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.

June 24, 2016 10:04 am