WSJ Opinion Documentary: "Get the Jew": The Crown Heights Riot Revisited
WSJ Opinion Documentary: "Get the Jew": The Crown Heights Riot Revisited
| 07 October 2024 (USA)
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"This 20 minute documentary sheds light on the worst antisemitic riot in American history, which occurred in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, in 1991. Triggered by a Hasidic man running a red light and accidentally hitting and killing a young black child, the riot led to attacks on Jews. Stores and police cars were burned and a Hasidic man was killed. David Dinkins, New York’s mayor at the time, allowed the riot to go on for three full days, while the media downplayed the antisemitism at the heart of the violence. The film’s interviews include Rev. Al Sharpton and then-Deputy Police Chief Ray Kelly as well as WSJ Opinion writer Elliot Kaufman. The current wave of antisemitism makes these events newly relevant and worthy of reconsideration" (The Wall Street Journal).

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Phonearl

Good start, but then it gets ruined

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StyleSk8r

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

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Kayden

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

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Cheryl

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

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