JEWISH CHRONICLE
More than 30 years after Crown Heights riots, Orthodox Jews face a new threat from their ‘anti-Zionist’ neighbours
Eliana Silver
August 19, 2025

On a recent Tuesday afternoon at the intersection of Utica Avenue and Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, people queued for free food. The scene looked like any neighborhood outreach effort, tables high with groceries, volunteers chatting with residents. But unlike most food bank programs for needy people, this one was run by a group who have been accused of antisemitic targeting of Jews in the Chasidic neighbourhood...The flyers accuse Chasidic Jews of exploiting Black tenants and fueling gentrification, echoing tensions that have been present in the area for decades. “[What] they’re really doing is taking people that are struggling with poverty…and they’re giving them food while doing a sick form of manipulation by trying to use that food…to create and to plant in them antisemitic ideas and to create racial tension in a community that has come so far over the last 30 years,” Behrman said. READ MORE