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Tragedy has struck the Crown Heights community both emotionally and physically. On Tuesday evening, April 22, 25 Nissan 5785, Rabbi Menachem “Mendy” Raitport was killed and his son was ...
An eight-year-old boy was struck and killed by an SUV as he and his older sister crossed the street while walking home from ...
BROOKLYN — TWO HASIDIC JEWISH MEN were attacked on Saturday near a Crown Heights synagogue near Union Street and Albany Avenue. The attacker allegedly attempted to stab one man in the neck and ...
A new social media campaign is encouraging Jewish voters in the Crown Heights area of Brooklyn to “#DoItForTheShchuna,” using the Hebrew word for a religious neighborhood. Exactly 50 years ago ...
MENACHEM (Mendy) Raitport, 57, a respected Crown Heights kosher butcher, died in a three-vehicle collision on I-95 in Georgia on April 22.
Thousands of people gathered in Crown Heights on Wednesday, June 5 to pay their respects to Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, a beloved key figure in the local community and a pioneer of Jewish life around the ...
Surveillance video of the attack in Crown Heights, Brooklyn shows a man lunging with a knife at a group of men and slashing one in the torso. It happened at around 2 a.m. Saturday. Witness ...
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn (WABC) -- A 28-year-old man is under arrest and a family and community are trying to calm their nerves after the attempted kidnapping in Brooklyn that doesn't seem to have ...
Witnesses say a Jewish man was stabbed in the abdomen while his attacker yelled 'Free Palestine.' The attack took place around 2 a.m. Sunday close to Chabad headquarters in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
A bloody attack on a Jewish teen in Crown Heights is uniting the neighborhood?s diverse groups to rally against violence Wednesday. Community members say the most recent attack took place Sunday ...