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New York police at the lighting of the world's largest menorah, hosted by Chabad, in New York City, December 14, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
December 17, 2025, 9:42 pm
NYPD investigating alleged antisemitic stabbing, 2nd assault in under 24 hours
New York police say assailant who knifed man in chest made ‘anti-Jewish statements,’ just hours after attack on two Jewish men on subway
By Luke Tress
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
Illustrative: Men walking in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York, in 2017. (Amir Levy/ Getty Images/ File)
November 5, 2024, 12:41 pm
Crown Heights get-out-the-vote activists aim to show Chabad’s electoral might
Though deep-blue New York will surely go to Harris, the Jewish Future Alliance wants to dispel impression that Hasidic vote doesn’t matter in Trump-leaning Brooklyn enclave
By Luke Tress
Screen capture from video of a Jewish man being stabbed in New York, August 10, 2024. (X. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
August 11, 2024, 9:25 am
Young Jewish man stabbed in NYC by attacker yelling ‘Free Palestine’
Victim taken to hospital, community members chase down assailant and hold him until police arrive and make arrest
By ToI Staff
New York police officers arrest a Hasidic Jewish student after he was removed from a breach in the wall of the synagogue that led to a tunnel dug by students at Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters, January 8, 2024, in New York. (Bruce Schaff via AP)
April 12, 2024, 8:34 am
Thirteen men plead not guilty for melee over illegal Brooklyn Chabad tunnel
Fight broke out when workers filled in tunnels under Chabad headquarters; all but one of the students involved are Israeli citizens
By Luke Tress
A Hatzalah ambulance in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York (photo credit: Tariqabjotu/Wikimedia Commons)
July 9, 2023, 10:16 am
Israeli student stabbed in Crown Heights in suspected hate crime
Two assailants ask Chabad man if he is Jewish, then stab him with screwdriver, lightly injuring him in the arm
By ToI Staff and Luke Tress
Chana Raskin and her Raza circle who recorded 'Kapalya', an album of sacred Lubavitch tunes, sung by women, released February 22, 2023 (Courtesy Chana Raskin)
March 12, 2023, 5:20 am
Barrier-busting women-only album of Hasidic tunes gives new voice to aging nigunim
‘Kapelya’ marks the debut album for Chana Raskin, whose Chabad upbringing led her into exploring sacred music with other women, breaking into a club once reserved solely for men
By Jessica Steinberg
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
The NYPD is seeking info on a man, seen above in a surveillance video, suspected of assaulting a Jewish man in Crown Heights on January 22, 2022. (NYPD Twitter/JTA)
January 27, 2022, 9:23 am
ADL offers $5,000 reward for information on antisemitic attack in Crown Heights
NYPD seeks to identify suspect who punched Hasidic man in the face; Anti-Defamation League New York director warns such incidents are becoming normalized
By Lisa Keys
New York Mayor Eric Adams greets students and parents at Concourse Village Elementary School in the Bronx, New York, on January 3, 2022. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP)
January 7, 2022, 8:58 pm
NYC Jews hoping new mayor will reach out beyond Brooklyn’s Orthodox community
Progressive, non-Orthodox Jewish activists express concern Eric Adams’ close ties with the Orthodox could lead to their exclusion from posts in his administration
By Ben Sales
The ad, which briefly appeared at a bus stop in Crown Heights but was taken down. (Screenshot from Twitter)
December 4, 2021, 5:07 am
Anti-vaccine ad by Orthodox group briefly takes over Crown Heights bus stop
Copying format of pro-vaccine campaign, now-removed placard by anti-vaxx group listed ‘Top Ten reasons NOT to get vaccinated’
By Ben Sales
New York Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul speaks during opening day of the 2019 legislative session in the Senate Chamber at the Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2019, in Albany, N.Y. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink)
August 11, 2021, 2:46 am
Kathy Hochul, set to replace Cuomo as NY governor, no stranger to state’s Jews
Lt. gov. was among first to call out recent antisemitism spurt in New York; made impression by attending meetings with US Jewish community leaders and touring Hasidic strongholds
By Stewart Ain
A Hasidic family, dressed up for the jewish holiday purim, crosses the street on March 10, 2020 in the Williamsburg neighborhood Brooklyn, New York. (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images via JTA)
April 3, 2020, 4:08 am
For some US Jewish communities, serious outbreak linked to mass Purim parties
‘I would have canceled,’ says rueful manager of band that performed for 300 people in Crown Heights, who said he looked for guidance from the CDC and rabbis, but found none
By Ben Sales
[Illustrative] An El Al Israel Airlines Boeing 747 at the John F. Kennedy International Airport (Photo: iStock/Maciej_Bledowski)
March 29, 2020, 8:50 pm
How Israelis fleeing the coronavirus in New York met contagion in the skies
When a Brooklyn yeshiva closed, 100+ Israeli students flew home on El Al. Dozens have now tested positive, and other passengers, fearful, want to know why they were put at risk
By Simona Weinglass
Followers of the Chabad movement dance on March 14, 2020, days before 770 Eastern Parkway's closure because of the coronavirus. (Youtube screenshot)
March 18, 2020, 8:30 pm
Coronavirus shutters 770 Eastern Parkway, HQ of Chabad, for first time ever
Celebration on Saturday night drew 100 followers, but then it became clear that Crown Heights was emerging as an NYC virus hotspot
By PHILISSA CRAMER
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