Tag: Crown Heights
Why security for the Jewish community is needed now more than ever
I knelt in Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue several days after the attack. Six years ago this week.
It was still a crime scene. I felt the bullet holes in the walls. In the prayer...
Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, 74, instrumental in Chabad’s global expansion
Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, the energetic vice chairman of Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch—the educational arm of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement—died after a lengthy illness on June 4. He was 74 years old, four days shy of his...
‘Explosion’ of conspiracy theories on social media about ‘tunnels’ at Chabad
The account Frum TikTok was one of many to post footage of a riot at a synagogue that is part of the world headquarters of Chabad-Lubavitch. Police were called after “young agitators,” as Chabad put it,...
Jewish teen in Brooklyn punched for refusing to say ‘Free Palestine’
A Jewish teen walking in the heavily Jewish neighborhood of Midwood in Brooklyn, N.Y., was hit in the face by an attacker because he wouldn’t say “Free Palestine.”
The victim and his friend, both 18-year-old yeshivah students, were...
With synagogues shuttered, ‘porch minyans’ grow in Brooklyn
The streets of Crown Heights in Brooklyn, N.Y., were eerily empty at 7 p.m. on Thursday. Normally, children are out playing and parents rushing home from work or errands, with crowds of people out...