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NYPD on Eastern Parkway, Crown Heights. Liena Zagare/BklynerCROWN HEIGHTS – There’s unease among some people of color in Brooklyn neighborhoods slated to receive more cops under Mayor Bill de Blasio’s response to the wave of anti-Semitic hate crimes. “The rise in anti-Semitic hate crimes is horrible and unacceptable,
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FORT GREENE – More anti-Semitic tags, this time at an elite High School in Brooklyn. At 5:12 p.m. on Thursday, NYPD received a report of swastikas and the message ‘Kill All Jews’ scrawled on the wall of a stairway on the third floor of Brooklyn Technical High School. The
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BORO PARK — Last year saw another spike in reported hate crimes, much of it perpetrated against our Jewish neighbors. So we went out to talk to our neighbors [/talking-to-neighbors-anti-semitism-in-williamsburg/], both Jewish and not, about anti-Semitism, hate, what’s being done and could be done. According to NYPD reports, anti-Semitic hate-crimes
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Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commissioner Shea hold a media availability on crime statistics. Police Academy, Queens. Monday, January 6, 2020. Credit: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography OfficeCrime in New York City was at another record low last year, that is if you look at the total number of reported
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New York State Attorney General Tish James welcomed Congregation Beth Elohim Rabbi Rachel Timoner to African-American Clergy & Elected Officials breakfast on January 3, where she helped deliver the unity prayer with Rev. Waterman. Photo courtesy of Councilmember Brad Lander.BEDFORD-STUYVESANT – Brooklyn has become one of the epicenters of anti-Semitic
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Photo courtesy of Acapulco Deli & Restaurant GREENPOINT — A Greenpoint restaurant was vandalized with swastikas and other obscene materials in December. On Sunday, December 22, two men were caught on surveillance video spray-painting the front of Acapulco Deli & Restaurant at 1116 Manhattan Avenue, a Mexican joint, cops said. In
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CROWN HEIGHTS — Last year saw another spike in reported hate crimes, much of it perpetrated against our Jewish neighbors. So we went out to talk to our neighbors [/talking-to-neighbors-anti-semitism-in-williamsburg/], both Jewish and not, about anti-Semitism, hate, what’s being done and could be done. According to NYPD reports, by mid-2019,
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First Lady McCray and Chancellor Richard Carranza visit Franklin Delano Roosevelt High School in Brooklyn for a discussion on anti-Semitism and hate crime prevention on Friday, January 3, 2020. Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography OfficeOriginally posted on Chalkbeat [https://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/ny/2020/01/03/after-a-wave-of-anti-semitic-violence-nyc-schools-plans-curriculum-to-combat-hate/?utm_source=republish&
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Fight Back Bay Ridge organized anti-racism protest on 86th and 3rd Avenue in BrooklynBAY RIDGE — As thousands marched over the Brooklyn Bridge [/jewish-solidarity-march/]in the big Solidarity rally, over 250 residents of Bay Ridge linked hands along 3rd Avenue and made it clear yesterday – hate has no home here, nor
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Solidarity march on Brooklyn bridge. Madeleine Kornfeld/Bklyner.Thousands of people marched in solidarity on Sunday, January 5, to protest anti-Semitism and demonstrate support for Jewish neighbors affected by recent incidents of anti-Semitic violence. A sea of winter hats, hoods, and yarmulkes flooded Foley Square around 11 a.m. in
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Last year saw another spike in reported hate crimes, much of it perpetrated against our Jewish neighbors. So we went out to talk to our neighbors, both Jewish and not, about anti-Semitism, hate, what’s being done and could be done. According to NYPD reports, by mid-2019, anti-Semetic hate crimes
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Governor Cuomo visited an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in Williamsburg with Rabbi David Niederman to show support for the Jewish Community in the wake of the stabbing in Monsey and a recent rash of other anti-Semitic attacks. Photo courtesy of Governer’s office.Local Congressional representatives announce federal aid, Governor Andrew