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The festival will feature musical performances, health screenings and a community conversation tent.

The 8th Annual One Crown Heights Community Festival is set to take place this Sunday, Aug. 20 from 12-5 p.m. in Brower Park — just in time for some much

In New York City, the second-largest Jewish population center in the world, Nets fans are appalled and frightened.

Arna Lipkind (center) and Maayan Zik (right) at the One Crown Heights event in early July. In early June, The American Jewish Committee (AJC) hosted a virtual meeting along with three U.S. senators to officially launch the first-ever Senate Caucus on Black-Jewish Relations (SCBJR). Those senators were Cory Booker (D-NJ), Jacky Rosen (D-NV) and Tim Scott (R-SC). “Reinvigorating the black-Jewish alliance was at the bedrock of the civil rights movement,” said moderator Manya Brachear Pa...

Hearts & Minds: An Original Look at Each Parsha in the Torah by Pini Dunner; Otzrot Books, 2021. Many Jews believe... Though the term itself has gained traction in the last decade, there have always been Jews of different races. Scan the globe today, and you’ll find Ethiopian Jews and the African Lemba tribe whose men test positive for the Kohen gene, a marker of the Jewish priests. What’s more, many Sephardic, Cuban, Mexican, and Yemenite Jews consider themselves Jews of color. Not to ment...