For most the Crown Heights Riots, or pogrom, is just a story or chapter in the history of our neighborhood, but for those who were in the neighborhood as a the riots raged on unhindered and uninhibited it was a week they would never forget.

CrownHeights.info obtained news footage spanning the week long unrest, telling its story like never before.

For most the Crown Heights Riots, or pogrom, is just a story or chapter in the history of our neighborhood, but for those who were in the neighborhood as a the riots raged on unhindered and uninhibited it was a week they would never forget.

CrownHeights.info obtained news footage spanning the week long unrest, telling its story like never before.

News outlets worldwide are reporting on the 20th anniversary of the Crown Heights Pogrom. The following is a collection of headlines from both news and opinion sections of the media. While most journalists recognize the nature of the riot - an anti-Semitic, blood libel based pogrom - some, such as Henry Goldschmidt writing for the Huffington Post, have taken to apologizing for the perpetrators of the crime, laying the blame on “pent-up black frustration at white privilege” and the “complexity of race relations in Crown Heights.”

News outlets worldwide are reporting on the 20th anniversary of the Crown Heights Pogrom. The following is a collection of headlines from both news and opinion sections of the media. While most journalists recognize the nature of the riot - an anti-Semitic, blood libel based pogrom - some, such as Henry Goldschmidt writing for the Huffington Post, have taken to apologizing for the perpetrators of the crime, laying the blame on “pent-up black frustration at white privilege” and the “complexity of race relations in Crown Heights.”

A panel on the 1991 Crown Heights riots criticized for the inclusion of African-American activist Rev. Al Sharpton that was set to take place in Westhampton Beach on New York’s Long Island on Sunday has been postponed, The Jerusalem Post learned on Thursday.

The Rev. Al Sharpton may skip a panel discussion in the Hamptons on the 1991 Crown Heights riots after Jewish leaders blasted the organizer for inviting him.

The following is an excerpt from a piece the Daily News ran today on the “off-the-radar” Jewish holiday of Tu-B'av, referring to it as the Jewish equivalent to (lehavdil) Valentines day:

As New York City approaches the 20th anniversary of the Crown Heights riots, the family of Yankel Rosenbaum is unhappy that Rev. Al Sharpton will participate in a panel discussion about the state of black and Jewish relations.

On a corner of Kingston Avenue, along the row of stores that serves as the center of what is colloquially known as “the Jewish side” of Crown Heights, a young chasidic woman with a sheitel atop her head banters with a middle-aged black man wearing a wool stocking cap.

Early in the 1990s — so many years ago that it’s nowhere to be found online — I was on a panel about black anti-Semitism at New York’s 92nd Street Y, where the historian of slavery Eugene Genovese observed that if a black demagogue called Italian Americans “racists,” they’d come after him with baseball bats, but if he called Jews “racists,” they’d hold a few conferences at the 92nd Street Y.