Claudio Papapetrio's opinion's piece highlights how alliances and the continuing conversation between Crown Heights' Black and Jewish population have declined since the  1991 riots and how the two groups co-exist but live very separate lives.

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Tensions over the Rockland County schools mirror tensions in the handful of cities and towns across the country, where expanding Orthodox communities have chafed with locals. But coexistence in this New York State suburb has proved to be particularly fraught between the Orthodox communities and their black and Latino neighbors. more>

In a surprise move, the proposed Islamic Center near Ground Zero dumps co-founder Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf who many Jews supported. more>

Depending on whom you ask, the new mosque planned for a quiet block in southern Brooklyn is either the latest target in a wave of coordinated anti-Muslim sentiment, part of an insidious effort to spread political Islam throughout America or simply a parking nightmare waiting to happen. more>

Left-wing politics were not foreign to the Upper West Side milieu in which Kagan was reared. Bella Abzug, a feminist and an outspoken opponent of the Vietnam War, represented the neighborhood in Congress during the 1970s. Residents saw themselves as members of a social and political vanguard. more>