Steve Isaak is a Jiu-Jitsu sensei that teaches his own flavor of martial arts called Shima Self Defense. While open to the whole community, a large percentage of his class comes from the Orthodox Jewish Community in Williamsburg. Due to recent changes in National politics increasing the potential for harm towards minorities, Isaak has seen more and more Jewish students in his class. Check it out in this short profile video from our friends at Vice.

For the first time in more than a decade, the number of hate crimes in the US shot up two years in a row. We visit a class lead by Jiu-Jitsu expert Steve Isaak who teaches subconscious mind control-skills to Brooklyn's Jewish community.

Wonder Wheel is a new movie from writer/director Woody Allen that is set in 1950s Coney Island, at Deno's Wonder Wheel Park, one of the neighborhoods most famous attractions. Starring actors Jim Belushi, Juno Temple, Justin Timberlake and Kate Winslet, the film "tells the story of a middle-aged carousel operator and his beleaguered wife." Winslet has said that:

"The film revolves around Ginny, the wife of a carousel operator, who perks up when she falls for a handsome lifeguard. But when her husband's estranged daughter resurfaces and also sets her sights on Mickey, it begins 'the great unraveling of Ginny."

Wonder Wheel is set to have a limited release on December 1st, 2017.

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