The truth is much different. In 2019, the Jewish communities in the Williamsburg, Bedford-Stuyvesant, and Crown Heights neighborhoods of Brooklyn experienced a wave of anti-Semitic violence.
Three precincts with large Hasidic populations, all in Brooklyn and including Williamsburg, reported the most anti-Jewish hate crimes in 2018. JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for ...
NEW YORK (JTA) — Four heavily Orthodox neighborhoods in Brooklyn ... stark shift for Hasidic Jews, who make up a significant share of the population in Borough Park, Williamsburg and Crown ...
Security cameras on the street recorded one incident, showing an unidentified individual running between cars around 2 AM on Saturday and violently slashing the tires of multiple parked vehicles.
The entire parent council in a controversial Brooklyn school ... Greenpoint and Williamsburg, has used its official platform to promote anti-Israel views and has kept Jews from speaking at ...
in Williamsburg Brooklyn. “Taken together, these discriminatory practices would strip the Yeshivas of their essential Jewish character,” wrote Avi Schick, an attorney for the yeshivas at ...
Some history: Hatzalah started in Williamsburg in 1965, after a prominent member of the Hasidic Jewish community had a heart attack and died while waiting for an ambulance to arrive. As a response ...