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1991 Crown Heights riots

Orthodox Jews talk to police about more police presence to prevent further violence during anti-Jewish riots in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York, August 21, 1991. (AP Photo/ Andrew Savulich/ File)
August 18, 2025, 11:37 pm
Anti-Israel NY group seeks ‘justice’ for 1991 accident that sparked antisemitic riot
Crown Heights activists blame ‘Zionist White supremacists’ for car collision in which Black boy, aged 7, was killed 34 years ago, raising fears of renewed racial turmoil in neighborhood
By Luke Tress
In this August 21, 1991 file photo, New York City Police Department officers scuffle with a protester during a march through the Crown Heights section of the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/Joe Major, File)
February 22, 2022, 11:22 pm
Podcaster explores own Black-Jewish identities through frame of Crown Heights riots
Just six when her city roiled in racism, a Jew of color offers an audio personal account of the upheaval three decades later
By Adam Dickter
Former New York City mayor David Dinkins speaks to the media before the unveiling of a plaque honoring Nelson Mandela in Monument Park, April 16, 2014, at Yankee Stadium in New York. (AP Photo/Bill Kostroun)
November 24, 2020, 10:01 pm
Ex-NYC mayor Dinkins, blamed over deadly Crown Heights riots, dies at 93
City’s first Black mayor was dogged by accusations he held back police, allowed rioters to harm Jews after death of Black boy accidentally struck by rabbi’s motorcade in 1991
By Ben Sales
Illustrative: Rabbi Eli Cohen (right), the executive director of the Crown Heights Community Center, talks with a census volunteer at the #OneCrownHeights festival which promotes unity between the Jewish and African-American communities in Brooklyn, New York, on Sunday, September 15, 2019. (Ben Sales/via JTA)
September 19, 2019, 5:12 am
Annual Crown Heights unity festival takes on greater significance after attacks
For the 4th year, the #OneCrownHeights community party brings residents from diverse backgrounds together to play, talk — and organize against gun violence and hate crimes
By Ben Sales
Al Sharpton speaking at the Reform movement’s Religious Action Center conference in Washington, DC, May 20, 2019. (RAC)
May 20, 2019, 11:28 pm
Al Sharpton admits to using ‘cheap’ rhetoric about Jews
Civil rights activist accused of fueling 1991 Crown Heights riots tells conference of Reform Jews he could have ‘done more to heal, rather than harm’
By Ron Kampeas
Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men look through books in the neighborhood of Crown Heights on February 25, 2019 in New York City (Spencer Platt/Getty Images via JTA)
March 30, 2019, 4:38 pm
A JTA reporter encounters anti-Semitism on the streets of New York
‘My anger warred with my relief that my first experience of anti-Semitism was so innocuous. The homeless man’s words seemed a bit like a mirror reflecting the current zeitgeist’
By Sam Sokol
Jewish men walk past a 'Crown Heights Shmira Patrol' security vehicles in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights on February 27, 2019 in New York. (Angela Weiss/AFP)
February 28, 2019, 5:29 am
Crown Heights communities seek cohesion after spate of anti-Semitic attacks
Residents say communication and cooperation established between Jewish and black communities in aftermath 1991 riots have dwindled in recent years
By Thomas URBAIN
Manhattanville Coffee, opened two years ago, merges two of Crown Heights' communities: It's a chic artisanal cafe with strict kosher certification. (Ben Sales/JTA)
May 19, 2017, 11:59 am
A Jewish hipster haven in the heart of Chabad’s Brooklyn territory
Known as Lubavitch Hasidic headquarters since the 1940s, Crown Heights is becoming home to a new kind of Jew
By Ben Sales
File: In this Aug. 19, 2002, file photo, Carmel Cato, center, reaches out to embrace Norman Rosenbaum, right, as they walk together in a show of unity into a New York restaurant on the 11th anniversary of the 1991 Crown Heights riots sparked by the deaths of Cato's 7-year-old son Gavin Cato and the murder of Rosenbaum's brother Yankel, an Australian doctoral student. On Sunday, Aug. 21, 2016, residents of the Crown Heights neighborhood in Brooklyn mark the 25th anniversary of the riot. (AP Photo/Beth A. Keiser, File)
August 22, 2016, 4:13 am
Brooklyn residents remember dark chapter of Crown Heights race riot
Dozens gather to celebrate improvement in relations between Jews, African-Americans 25 years after deaths sparked violence
By MICHAEL BALSAMO
In this Aug. 21, 1991 file photo, New York City Police Department officers, in riot gear, walk past a police car that was overturned by rioters in the Crown Heights section of the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP/David Burns)
August 19, 2016, 5:42 am
A festival to remember a riot? New York event stirs debate
25th anniversary of Crown Heights violence to be marked with games, rides, raising questions about celebration, commemoration
By Jennifer Peltz
Illustrative photo of Orthodox Jews in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York City (Serge Attal/Flash90)
August 17, 2016, 9:08 pm
Crown Heights riots festival irks slain Jewish student’s family
Sister of Yankel Rosenbaum, who was murdered by rioters, slams ‘fun day’ marking 1991 disturbances as ‘shameful’
By JTA
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