Twenty years after the Crown Heights Riots, community leaders and activists in the diverse Brooklyn neighborhood are quick to emphasize that community relations are significantly better than in 1991, when three days of riots shook the neighborhood.
Video: Living Apart in Crown Heights
Twenty years after the Crown Heights Riots, community leaders and activists in the diverse Brooklyn neighborhood are quick to emphasize that community relations are significantly better than in 1991, when three days of riots shook the neighborhood.
But while hostilities and distrust between the Lubavitch and black communities may have dissipated or shifted, residents of Crown Heights told the Forward that there is little, if any, interaction between the groups. In this video we walk the streets of Crown Heights and talk with residents about the continuing racial divisions within the neighborhood.
LEVI
wow that old lady really makes shomrim sound lame
And your point is?
wow, what a waste of storage space. the video lacks investigative credibility, I don’t even know what it’s trying to say!! The camera was set on auto run (iris etc) bad composition, it hurts to watch them waste a good camera like that.
mo
The Forward is doing Backwards reporting.
community member
Well done, but there is much more depth to this moving forward. If you want to see how much has been accomplished come to the Brooklyn Children’s Museum for the Commemoration tonight.
another community member
good reporting??
excuse me, mr video reporter, but your liberal bias is showing!
we live together and shop together and ride the subway together.
if you want more togetherness, then you are assuming that we will have to intermarry and develop a melted pot of combined culture/religion. that would be forcing our community to assimilate.
would you dare suggest such a thing to the Amish or to a group of devout muslims?
proud to be a Jew
Actually they make a very strong point.
Untill now the media was only saying how everybody is getting along quite nicely here in CH. As if our kids are playing in the park together, as if we eat in each others homes. All that interacial friendliness is misleading and easily leads readers to beleive there is intermarrige here.
This video is a powerful reminder of who we really are. We are Yidden, and our children are not supposed to be playing with goyishe children. We keep pas yisroel only so that we don’t dine at the homes of our our goyishe neighbors. We don’t send our children to the Cathlic School on President Street and Brooklyn avenue. This is because we are Yidden and adhere to the ways of the shulchan aruch, not the ways portrayed by a false media that seeks to show the world how jews are melting into the rest of us – oh how wonderful. Sorry, that will never happen since we are an Am HaNivchar, we are to be a light onto the nations, and we are expected to live apart from the nations. Remember that many brooklyn readers are not aware of this Havdala bein yisroel la’amim, and this Video makes that very clear. It is a very important message to anybody who seeks to understand what Yidishkeit is all about.
Here we see quite a bit of toichen in the Forwards reporting.
the old lady made me laugh. like alot
num 6, you said it all. were Jews thank Gd :):) and just stick with making a Kiddush Hashem..be polite, cordial. no need for any other ineractions.