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Twenty years after the 1989 murder of black teenager Yusuf Hawkins by a white mob in Bensonhurst, the Rev. Al Sharpton joined the victim’s family and friends at the Brooklyn cemetery where he is buried. ...Two years from now will mark the 20th anniversary of the murder of Jewish rabbinical student Yankel Rosenbaum during the Crown Heights riot – which Sharpton helped instigate. ... The Stiletto will have to wait another two years to learn how Sharpton plans to commemorate Rosenbaum’s murder, seeing as how he protested civil rights charges being brought against his killer. [NOTE: There was media bias...

NEW YORK – The city's ultra-Orthodox Jews took the Pennsylvania Amish on a walking tour of their world Tuesday "It's reinforcing to the Amish community to see us Jews living the way the Bible says Jews are supposed to live, and have lived since the time of Moses and Abraham," said Yisroel Ber Kaplan, program director for the Chassidic Discovery Center in Brooklyn. "The Amish are also living their lives as the Bible speaks to them." Dozens of Amish residents from Lancaster County, Pa., toured a Hasidic neighborhood in Brooklyn's Crown Heights to learn more about their culture. Today's Lubavitchers...

Crown Heights will see its first-ever Straight Pride Parade this weekend. So how do the homos feel? By Jaime Jordan Reggae artists on the Taking Care Of Our Own Productions (myspace.com/tcooo) label are planning a Straight Pride Parade for Sunday 31 at 10am, starting at Church and Flatbush Avenues in Crown Heights and continuing down Bob Marley Avenue. It was organized in response to accusations made by gay activists, specifically Peter Tatchell, founder of the activist group OutRage!, that certain reggae songs, including Stapler’s “Hit Them Hard,” incite violence against gays. “The issue is not homophobia,” explains Tatchell. “It is...

Four black teens were arrested on hate crime charges Friday, after police say they threw rocks at a bus full of Jewish toddlers. Police say the teens hurled racial slurs and broke windows on the school bus last month in Crown Heights. The three girls and one boy are all 14 years old. No one on the bus was hurt. The case is the latest in a string of incidents between black and Jewish residents in Crown Heights.

A spurt of violence in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn has left residents wondering if the racial tensions of the past are making a return to the neighborhood, which saw anti-Semitic riots by blacks in August 1991. Brooklyn's Crown Heights neighborhood has seen more cops on the street recently. The first incident in the recent upswing, in which a young black man was badly beaten by Jewish youths, was followed by an attack on a Jewish teenager as he rode his bike a few weeks later. Angry Jewish residents have since taken to the streets with signs reading: "Jewish...

Upswing In Recent Violence Has Communities At Odds Fears Of Riots Similar To 1991 Grip Residents NEW YORK (CBS) ― Police are mobilizing a massive presence in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn in the wake of increased tension between black and Jewish communities. Leaders from both communities have come together recently to preach cooperation among residents of the neighborhood where blacks and Hassidic Jews live side by side. But recent violence has showed that religion and race don't always mix. "I definitely feel [like there's unrest] because I see it everyday. I'm around here a lot and that's what...

NEW YORK (CBS) ― Police are mobilizing a massive presence in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn in the wake of increased tension between black and Jewish communities. Leaders from both communities have come together recently to preach cooperation among residents of the neighborhood where blacks and Hassidic Jews live side by side. But recent violence has showed that religion and race don't always mix. "I definitely feel [like there's unrest] because I see it everyday. I'm around here a lot and that's what I'm hearing," said Crown Heights resident Anthony Rios. Another resident, Joe Morgenstein, agreed, saying he hears...

Crown Heights erupted in anger today as hundreds marched in protest after a 16-year-old Jewish teen was beaten and robbed in the early morning hours. Police have made no arrests and have named no suspects, but the incident raised tensions that have simmered since the racial uproar of the early 1990s. "Jewish blood is not cheap and we are making that statement," said Getzy Markowitz, 23, one of up to 300 people who marched in protest yesterday afternoon. "We are standing up for life an standing up for justice." Cops said that Alon Sherman was riding his bicycle north on...

Returning to Chabad headquarters in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, for a Shabbat is an exhilarating experience. Lubavitchers are arguably the most alive people in the world and there is a pulse and electricity in the air that can scarcely be found anywhere else. [A view of Crown Heights.] A view of Crown Heights. Photo: Courtesy What I did not expect, however, was to be approached by a large number of young rabbinical students of marriageable age who wanted counseling as to how to overcome their obsession with a woman's looks on dates. Some of the young men who approached me had...

n condemning radio show host Don Imus’ use of the term “nappy headed hos” to describe African-American basketball players, Al Sharpton said, “What is any possible reason you could feel that this type of statement should be forgiven and overlooked?” Sharpton also said that Imus’ show should be terminated from CBS and MSNBC. These are indeed questions that should be asked about Sharpton himself, and the Al Sharpton Show. Al Sharpton has as much right to talk about racial and ethnic tolerance as former Klan leader David Duke. ...Perhaps someone should take Don Imus to task for what he said,...

An 8-year-old boy who climbed into a parked school bus, released the emergency brake and sent 26,000 pounds of steel rolling through Crown Heights, Brooklyn, on Monday was charged yesterday with criminally negligent homicide in the death of Amber Sadiq, 8... The boy, Tafari James, had been suspended from second grade on Friday for climbing onto another unattended bus, ... Investigators said it was unclear whether he released the brake on Monday intentionally. Witnesses saw him board the bus alone... He rode the bus as it gathered speed down a slight incline and jump off as it thudded to a...

A member of the Lubavitch community of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Ephraim Klein, was shot to death in his car on Tuesday. It is unclear whether the incident was anti-Semitic in nature. The local Jewish Community Council has offered a reward of $10,000 for any information that leads to the arrest and prosecution of those who committed the murder. The neighborhood where the crime occurred was the scene of violent riots in 1991 between its Jewish and black residents. The shooting happened at 1:30 a.m. (US time) as Klein was looking for a parking space on Carroll Street, one of the...

<p>February 23, 2004 -- The Parks Department sent kids in an after-school program to a play that Jewish leaders charge "distorts history" and exacerbates racial tensions, The Post has learned. The play, called "Crown Heights," suggests that Jews instigated the 1991 riots in the Brooklyn community of the same name and portrays yeshiva student Yankel Rosenbaum as the victim of an accidental stabbing, not a deliberate killing.</p>

A travesty took place in Greensboro on Feb. 6, when Sit-In Movement Inc. presented its Alston-Jones International Civil and Human Rights Award to Al Sharpton. It is joke enough that such an award is named for Skip Alston and Earl Jones, but the presentation of a purported “civil and human rights” award to Al Sharpton pushes irony to its limits. While any meaningful contributions to civil and human rights by Al Sharpton are questionable, there is considerable proof that he sought to deprive people of such rights in the Tawana Brawley rape hoax, which attracted national attention in 1987. Brawley,...

JANUARY 30, 2004 | current issue | back issues | subscribe | New Play About Crown Heights Blames Jews for Deadly Riots By ZACKARY SHOLEM BERGER A play blaming Jews for the Crown Heights riots of 1991 has opened at a new theater on West 42nd Street that was built in part with a tax-exempt, multimillion-dollar city bond. The play, called "Crown Heights," portrays the murder of chasidic scholar Yankel Rosenbaum as a tragic accident in a fight in which Jews threw the first punch. It is a production of the All Stars Project, Inc., one of a cluster...

Send In The Clowns The Jayson Blair story is over. As New York cops might say to crime-scene spectators, ‘Move along, there’s nothing to see.’ I know this, because Times columnist Frank Rich told me so. On June 15 (six-and-a-half weeks after Blair’s resignation), in an essay entitled “15 Minutes Became 5 Weeks,” Rich described the Blair scandal as a “mediathon,” not unlike the coverage of Martha Stewart, for whom Rich suddenly had great sympathy. Rich defined a mediathon as "a relentless hybrid of media circus, soap opera and tabloid journalism we have come to think of as All...

NEW YORK - After three trials in 12 years, a black man was convicted Wednesday in the stabbing death of a Jewish scholar during a 1991 riot in Brooklyn's Crown Heights neighborhood that widened the city's racial divide and contributed to Rudolph Giuliani's election as mayor. Click on link on for rest of article.

The Crown Heights retrial was briefly interrupted Thursday when defendant Lemrick Nelson suffered an asthma attack. Nelson had to be treated at a Brooklyn hospital after his attorneys say he started breathing heavily and put his head down on the defense table during court this morning. Nelson had been listening to testimony from the medical examiner at the time. The trial, the third in connection with the stabbing death of rabbinical student Yankel Rosenbaum, resumed in the afternoon in Brooklyn Federal Court. Nelson is accused of killing Rosenbaum during the 1991 Crown Heights riots. The defense has admitted that Nelson...

'91 Suspect Admits: "I Killed Yankel" By John Marzulli NY DAILY NEWS Tuesday, April 29th, 2003 Lemrick Nelson did it. He now admits stabbing Yankel Rosenbaum during the 1991 Crown Heights riots - but insists he didn't target the Hasidic scholar because of his religion, Nelson's lawyer declared yesterday in Brooklyn Federal Court. "I stabbed somebody, but not because he was a Jew, 'cause I was drunk. I had been drinking," Nelson told his girlfriend about a year after the attack, his lawyer Richard Jasper said yesterday. The bombshell stabbing admission - and radical change in legal strategy - came...