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The Crown Heights Quagmire.
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Sometimes it feels as if it will never be better. Sometimes something is so simple in your head you are dumbfounded that entire groups of people can get it so wrong. Are people such sheep, so biased, and so afraid of angering the Black community that they have to dance around the truth?The NY Times wrote about the current situation and got it just as wrong as everyone else. It's all the way you
Is Vega Staying in Crown Heights?
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Although it has been reported by a few different sources otherwise, Inspector Frank Vega claims he is still on the job. I have still been hearing rumblings that he will be leaving "on his own terms" in the very near future. Judging by his conversation with CrownHeights.info it seems what I have heard could be true.“A Commanding Officers term is typically 2 or 4 years, my last two commands were
Refuah Shelaimah!
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Please make sure to say Tehilim for former Chief Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu Shlita. (IsraelNN.com) Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu, former chief rabbi of Israel and a widely respected leader of the national religious movement suffered a stroke a short time ago. He is partly unconscious and is hospitalized in the Intensive Care Unit of Sha'arei Tzedek Hospital in Jerusalem.Rabbi Mordechai Tzemach ben Mazal
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Changes Are Coming To Crown Heights
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I'm still gathering all the information, but it seems that Inspector Frank Vega is getting the boot. When I can confirm that I will update the blog.Inspector Vega has long been considered part of the problem at the 71st Precinct in crown Heights. He has consistently failed to act to specific incidents of violent crimes. His robotic responses, excuses and repeated attempts to justify the rise
Palestinians commemorate 'the catastrophe'
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You have to watch this, and try to remember it's not a BBC report, or an Al Jezeera report. It's NBC News report. This extremely biased report uses phrases like Ethnic Cleansing and Massacre. I can only imagine what an outsider would think after seeing this. It's simply shocking.(HT J.H.)
VIN IS REPORTING BAR MITZVAH TEACHER INDICTED.
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VIN News is now reporting that Yona Weinberg has been indicted on charges of molestation. The part that really upset me is that I see 2 new cases were added to the charges. That makes 4 cases of alleged abuse. Flatbush, NY - Kings County District Attorney Charles J. Hynes today announced the indictment of Yona. W, 29, a Flatbush Bar Mitzvah tutor and licensed social worker charged with abusing
VIN NEWS DEFENDS RABBI HOROWITZ.
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Apparently there was a letter to the editor in Mishpacha that attacked Rabbi Horowitz. I was also informed that The Yeshiva World website gleefully picked up that letter to the editor and posted it on the website. At that point all the Sonei Yisroel who comment there decided to write disgusting and vile things about Rabbi Horowitz. (You can read more about that at Harry's here.) I believe it
It's Ok, Relax, It Wasn't Racial!
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A lot has happened in the last two weeks in Crown Heights. While many in the media and the world outside Crown Heights are shocked at the sudden and recent rise in "tension", we all know it was neither sudden nor strictly recent.I have been reporting on the up tick of violent crimes in Crown Heights for close to two years now. Yes, it does get worse in the Summer, but it's worse year round as
The Response.
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See more photos of the protest here and here.
