Video: Day 3 of the Crown Heights Riots

CBS, ABC, FOX, WOR and PIX news covered the outbreak of the Crown Heights Riots, or Pogrom, on August 19th 1991. In this six minute clip obtained exclusively by CrownHeights.info we see the reports filed by these reporters and their observation on how the riots unfolded.

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Video: Days 2 and 3 of the Crown Heights Riots

CBS, ABC, FOX, WOR and PIX news covered the outbreak of the Crown Heights Riots, or Pogrom, on August 19th 1991. In this six minute clip obtained exclusively by CrownHeights.info we see the reports filed by these reporters and their observation on how the riots unfolded.

Op-Ed: The Crown Heights Riots

by Eliyahu Federman

Healing racial tensions between the black and Jewish community of Crown Heights is imperative for the two groups to co-exist. No one disputes that. I certainly don’t. In fact, after the 1991 Crown Heights riots the Lubavitcher Rebbe, in looking toward the future, told Mayor Dinkins that the black and Jewish communities are “one side, one people, living in one city.”

Monday Night L’Chaims

Binyamin Deren (Lod, Israel) and Sara Rudolph (Pittsburgh, PA)
Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]

Motty Hershkowitz (Crown Heights) and Chaya Musya Nerenberg (Oak Park, MI)
Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]