Police & Fire
(Photo provided by the NYPD)Police are searching for a man who scrawled swastikas all over Marine Park Monday morning. The anti-Semitic vandal used a white marker to draw his hateful graffiti in multiple locations around 4:20am, according to the NYPD. Here are the places where cops say the
Education
Photo courtesy of Paypaul via FlickrA Kingsborough Community College professor has filed a lawsuit accusing top administrators of creating an culture of “systemic anti-Semitism” in which Jewish faculty were openly harassed and discriminated against. The lawsuit [http://thelawfareproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Lax_Complain_EDNY.pdf], first reported by
News
Leonid Rozenberg, president of the American Association of Invalids and Veterans of World War II, speaking a Sunday’s Rally. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)Responding to reports of a string of anti-Semitic incidents in New York City, hundreds gathered for a rally at Holocaust Memorial Park Sunday to call
Bensonhurst
Photo by Bensonhurst BeanA man was beat up and taunted with anti-semitic remarks in Borough Park Wednesday. The 21-year-old victim, who is of Bukharan Jewish descent, was walking from the D train’s New Utrecht Avenue station near 43rd Street at 3:30pm, when the perpetrator shouted at him “slow
anti-semitism
A 23-year-old man has been charged with hate crime after assaulting two Jewish men in separate incidents last week, JP Updates reports [http://jpupdates.com/2015/06/07/nypd-man-who-assaulted-two-hasidic-jews-in-brooklyn-arrested/] : > The incidents occurred on Friday May 22nd, 2015, when the suspect, identified as Shadi Rabah, assaulted two Hasidic men walking
anti-semitism
Magen David Yeshivah High SchoolIn the wake of recent terror attacks [http://www.cbsnews.com/paris-shooting/] in France at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and at a Kosher supermarket – which left many Jewish communities shaken – elected officials joined the faculty and students of Magen David Yeshivah High School [http://www.
anti-semitism
Source: CeCILL via Wikimedia CommonsBorough Park and Midwood are getting $1 million in security cameras installed on its streets in the coming months, and some are questioning whether taxpayer money should be diverted to an area with low crime rates. Gothamist is reporting [http://gothamist.com/2013/09/22/brooklyn_
66th precinct
The vandalized phoneby Steven Volynets and Shamar Hill When we started our literary project about being Jewish in Brooklyn almost a year ago, it was a venture of introspection – a search for the meaning of self in communities as diverse as New York City. As we set out to interview