Reverend Al Sharpton, the anti-semite who fueled the Crown Heights riots more than two decades ago, was honored with delivering a speech at a New York City synagogue on Rosh Hashanah.
Sharpton posted the attached photo on his Facebook page, and wrote “Being presented to speak at the Rosh Hashanah Services of the East Side Synagogue by Rabbi Perry Berkowitz and Rabbi Leah Berkowitz.”
YWN will remind our readers that Al Sharpton wasn’t always an unrepentant MSNBC star, and first-in-line to agitate a racial situation anywhere in the country. Twenty-seven years ago a tragic car accident in Crown Heights Brooklyn escalated into a pogrom against the Jewish people. The media usually gives it a politically correct description: “violence between the area’s Blacks and Jews.”
But the violence was not two-sided. The Crown Heights riot was an attack on the Jews by the neighborhood’s Caribbean community, fueled in large part by Al Sharpton, the “Reverend” who does not believe in the commandment about “bearing false witness.”
Sharpton called Jews “diamond merchants” during the aftermath of the Crown Heights riots, which took place in Brooklyn in 1991. Sharpton, who led protests that led to the riots, said at the time “If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.”
A Change.org petition calls for The East Side Synagogue to apologize to the family of Yankel Rosenbaum HYD, who was murdered during the riots in Crown Heights in 1991. Click here to sign.
He’s the darling of the left, boteach, and all liberals, especially the ADL.
Shame
Jcrc loves Sharpton, they live in teaneck and riverdale but claim to fight for us
Perry Berkowitz is a fake rabbi and publicity hound.
He invited sharpton because of the publicity and because many of his congregants are black goyim. His “shul” meets in a church.
Unreal !
We should not call those places “a synagogue”.
I am surprised and disappiinted that you refer to the reform House of Shame as a Synagogue.
that’s why I put it in quotes
I’m surprised they didn’t give him Shishi! or Pesichas Olaynu!
We are our own worst enemies. Appeasement doesn’t work.
At best, people will leave a few outraged comments here. But aside from that, let’s be honest – we don’t really care enough. We are more passionate about the CH food scene/food crawls and crowd funding for start ups then we are about the issues that really matter. It’s our apathy and indifference that is giving a life force to antisemitism and is tearing apart our community. People might not like my observation, but this is the truth. On the other hand and in contrast, the political left, Muslims and blacks are passionate about the things that matter to them… Read more »