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נאריש זשלאָב מענטש<p>Dublin, London, Lucerne, and now NYC? It's been a busy couple of days for assaults on random diaspora Jews by lefty supporters of Palestinian freedom.</p><p>Fighting for freedom and liberation is good. Being violent fucking bigoted shitheads? Not so good. </p><p>Why is this hard for people to get?</p><p>"In another disturbing incident amid a troubling rise in <a href="https://babka.social/tags/antisemitic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antisemitic</span></a> acts across <a href="https://babka.social/tags/NewYorkCity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewYorkCity</span></a>, a <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Chassidic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chassidic</span></a> man was assaulted Motzei <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Shabbos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Shabbos</span></a> while walking near the <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Chabad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chabad</span></a> World Headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway in <a href="https://babka.social/tags/CrownHeights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CrownHeights</span></a>.</p><p>The visibly <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a> and Chassidic victim was suddenly <a href="https://babka.social/tags/punched" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>punched</span></a> in the face by a black man who shouted antisemitic slurs and expressed support for <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Palestinians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestinians</span></a>. The attacker also threw a soda can at a second victim.</p><p>The assailant fled the scene but was apprehended by the NYPD and Shmira following a brief chase. The victim was treated for his injuries at a nearby hospital."</p><p><a href="https://collive.com/chassidic-man-assaulted-in-antisemitic-attack-in-crown-heights/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">collive.com/chassidic-man-assa</span><span class="invisible">ulted-in-antisemitic-attack-in-crown-heights/</span></a></p>
Nikolas Kozloff<p>Oy veh <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/nyregion/protests-israel-woman-attacked-brooklyn.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/04/28/nyregio</span><span class="invisible">n/protests-israel-woman-attacked-brooklyn.html</span></a> My take on <a href="https://federated.press/tags/CrownHeights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CrownHeights</span></a> and community relations from 2019 here <a href="https://www.tikkun.org/in-brooklyn-anti-semitism-takes-a-different-tack/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">tikkun.org/in-brooklyn-anti-se</span><span class="invisible">mitism-takes-a-different-tack/</span></a></p>
Chevra haChachamot<p>A new memoir, ‘The Punk Rock Queen of the Jews,’ explores traumatic teenage years in Hasidic Crown Heights, By Julia Gergely July 8, 2024</p><p>"...Rossi told the story of her rise through New York’s culinary scene in the 1980s in her 1st memoir, called “The Raging Skillet,” in 2015:</p><p><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-raging-skillet-the-true-life-story-of-chef-rossi-rossi/10414879" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookshop.org/p/books/the-ragin</span><span class="invisible">g-skillet-the-true-life-story-of-chef-rossi-rossi/10414879</span></a></p><p>...Her 2nd memoir is more of a prequel than a follow-up. In “The Punk Rock Queen of the Jews,” released earlier this year, Rossi digs into everything that came before: specifically, the two years she lived in Crown Heights as a teenager. The book narrates what she describes as the misogyny, assault &amp; trauma she experienced there. These experiences would shape the rest of her life, inspiring her to become a chef &amp; come out as lesbian:</p><p><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-punk-rock-queen-of-the-jews-a-memoir-rossi/20207140" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookshop.org/p/books/the-punk-</span><span class="invisible">rock-queen-of-the-jews-a-memoir-rossi/20207140</span></a> </p><p>“It is the most unusual ‘How I Came to New York’ story, which I would tell when I was a starving artist in the 1980s..."</p><p><a href="https://www.jta.org/2024/07/08/ny/a-new-memoir-the-punk-rock-queen-of-the-jews-explores-traumatic-teenage-years-in-hasidic-crown-heights" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">jta.org/2024/07/08/ny/a-new-me</span><span class="invisible">moir-the-punk-rock-queen-of-the-jews-explores-traumatic-teenage-years-in-hasidic-crown-heights</span></a></p><p><a href="https://babka.social/tags/Mazeldon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mazeldon</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jewniverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jewniverse</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/JFedi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JFedi</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/JewishWomen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JewishWomen</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/CrownHeights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CrownHeights</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Judaism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Judaism</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/JewishFood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JewishFood</span></a></p>
joe•iuculano :mastodon:<p>«A group of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Hasidic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hasidic</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a> worshippers were arrested amid a dispute over a tunnel secretly dug into the side of a historic <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Brooklyn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Brooklyn</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/synagogue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>synagogue</span></a>, setting off a brawl between police and those who tried to defend the makeshift passageway.</p><p>The discovery of the tunnel at the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ChabadLubavitch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChabadLubavitch</span></a> world headquarters in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CrownHeights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CrownHeights</span></a> prompted an emergency structural inspection from the city Tuesday.»</p><p><a href="https://apnews.com/article/brooklyn-synagogue-chabad-tunnel-2c03a40c9150bdf6d9d899436789d8cf" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/brooklyn-sy</span><span class="invisible">nagogue-chabad-tunnel-2c03a40c9150bdf6d9d899436789d8cf</span></a></p>