For most the Crown Heights Riots, or pogrom, is just a story or chapter in the history of our neighborhood, but for those who were in the neighborhood as a the riots raged on unhindered and uninhibited it was a week they would never forget.
CrownHeights.info obtained news footage spanning the week long unrest, telling its story like never before.
Tzvi and Simmie (nee Kershner) Gellman
895 Eastern Pkwy [between Albany and Troy Aves]
Akiva and Rivky Nussbaum
1401 President St [between Kingston and Brooklyn Aves]
Itche and Chana Kayla Hildeshaim
674 Lefferts Ave [between Albany and Troy Aves]
Mendel and Devorah (nee Small) Jacobson (Crown Heights)
Boruch Akiva and Rochel Hayman
123 Route 59 Suffern, NY 10901
Two years before the Crown Heights riots broke out the newly elected New York City Mayor David Dinkins met the Lubavitcher Rebbe. The Rebbe told the the mayor that Crown Heights a melting pot of many cultures, and it should be a melting pot of good things.
News outlets worldwide are reporting on the 20th anniversary of the Crown Heights Pogrom. The following is a collection of headlines from both news and opinion sections of the media. While most journalists recognize the nature of the riot – an anti-Semitic, blood libel based pogrom – some, such as Henry Goldschmidt writing for the Huffington Post, have taken to apologizing for the perpetrators of the crime, laying the blame on “pent-up black frustration at white privilege” and the “complexity of race relations in Crown Heights.”
CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute presents a series of photos the at the machne Israel Yechidus 1991, photos by Shmidy.
A panel on the 1991 Crown Heights riots criticized for the inclusion of African-American activist Rev. Al Sharpton that was set to take place in Westhampton Beach on New York’s Long Island on Sunday has been postponed, The Jerusalem Post learned on Thursday.
A rocket fired at Ashdod on Friday exploded in the courtyard of a Gur Shteeble and left 10 people injured. Magen David Adom emergency services said two men were seriously injured. Their names for Tehillim are Shmuel Zev ben Esther, and Yitzchok Meir ben Malka Leah.
They are not seeking spirituality, but the 400 young professionals who filled the trendy Splash club in downtown Boston Tuesday night know how to enjoy a good party.
For Texas A&M University graduate student Kate Putnam, the Rohr Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish Student Center has truly been a home away from home.
Eli and Chava Leah (nee Sufrin) Rosha (London)
Chabad is opening a house in Islington with the aim of reaching the influx of young Jewish professionals and families moving to that part of London.
Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Connecticut, looks forward to Fridays, when he can get home, switch his BlackBerry off and just be Joe – Hadassah Lieberman’s husband, father of four, grandfather of 11.
Bike 4 Friendship’s “Rolling Rabbis” rode into Phoenix, Arizona in 115-degree weather, but they had an even warmer welcome lined up for them.
The Rev. Al Sharpton may skip a panel discussion in the Hamptons on the 1991 Crown Heights riots after Jewish leaders blasted the organizer for inviting him.
Jewish.tv: Rabbi Moshe Feller, the chief Chabad emissary to Minnesota, shares personal stories of how legendary Jewish activist, Rabbi JJ Hecht, showed him how “a red-blooded American” could be the model of a passionately committed Jew.
Pictures from the wedding of Aryeh Hoffman (Los Angeles, CA) and Rochel Novoseletsky (Denver, CO) took place in the Oholei Torah Ballroom in Crown Heights.
The Ostrozynski family is sitting Shiva after the passing of their dear mother, Mrs. Mindy Ostrozynski OBM at her home, 440 Brooklyn Apt 4B in Crown Heights.
Shacharis 7:30, 8:15 and 9:00 (Sunday no 7:30am minyan).
Mincha 7:30pm (Friday: 2:00pm).
Maariv 8:25pm.
Condolences can be sent to ostro770@hotmail.com
Hamokom Yenachem Eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim
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