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Vigil in Crown Heights
Posted inHistory

Tensions flare in Crown Heights as extremist group targets ‘zionist white supremacists’ over 1991 incident

by Grace Gilson August 20, 2025August 20, 2025

(JTA) — Around 20 masked activists stood on a street corner Tuesday night in Crown Heights, distributing fliers accusing “zionist white supremacists” of murdering a child whose accidental death sparked […]

Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the United States Supreme Court, Dec. 3, 1993. (Photo/JTA-Ron Sachs-CNP-Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg to get a statue in her native Brooklyn

by Ron Kampeas and JTA October 20, 2020October 20, 2020
a man in Hasidic garb in a large crowd holds up a hand-made sign that says "We will not comply."
Posted inU.S.

‘It’s totally irresponsible:’ Non-Hasidic New York Jews on the unrest in Borough Park

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA October 16, 2020October 16, 2020
Anti-Semitic incidents in New York City have increased significantly this year. (JTA/Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

What is causing the spike in anti-Semitic attacks in Brooklyn?

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA November 12, 2019
Yosef Rapaport, left, and his son Alexander do not feel that life has become more dangerous for Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn. They say attacks on Jews are nothing new. (Photo/JTA-Ben Sales)
Posted inU.S.

In Orthodox Jewish Brooklyn, a spate of assaults feels like more of the same

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA September 4, 2019
A bearded man in a shop with books, a big menorah, etc.
Posted inNews

For Hanukkah shopping in Brooklyn, take the Mill Valley exit

by Liz Harris November 28, 2018November 28, 2018
Posted inKids & Family

A year of parenting in NYC — it’s a helluva town

Drew Himmelstein by Drew Himmelstein August 3, 2018
A 1949 poster printed by Firschein Press in Brooklyn advertises "The 13-year-old wonder kid, Cantor Leibele Zavin." (Photo/Flickr-MagnesMuseum)
Posted inCulture

Vintage posters will take you back to old Jewish Brooklyn

by Rob Gloster January 18, 2018January 24, 2018
Children exploring the Brooklyn Children’s Museum
(Photo/Flickr-Brooklyn Children’s Museum CC BY 2.0)
Posted inColumns

In kid-friendly Brooklyn, realizing the parenting resources missing from S.F.

Drew Himmelstein by Drew Himmelstein December 11, 2017December 11, 2017
Jami Attenberg
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‘Middlesteins’ author in S.F. with new novel to nosh on

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller March 15, 2017

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