Word: breindel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Breindel was a leading voice for the Jewish community during the racial unrest in Brooklyn's Crown Heights in 1991 after a Hasidic driver struck and killed a seven-year-old black child...
...Hasidic Jew was fatally stabbed during the ensuing riots. Breindel likened the Crown Heights riots to an American pogrom...
...Breindel was hospitalized for gastrointestinal bleeding, massive hermorrhaging and cardiac arrest in the week prior to his death, The Post reported. He had a history of health problems, including a bout with non-Hodgkins lymphoma, according to long-time friend Seth A. Kaplan...
...Breindel, a former Crimson editorial chair, was a well-known conservative commentator in New York. He was hired as The Post's editorial page editor in 1986, and left in January 1997 to develop strategic policy for the News Corporation, which owns The Post and the Fox News Channel...
Kaplan--who first met Breindel when the two attended Phillips Exeter Academy and was his roommate during their first year at Harvard--said Breindel was a vocal, charismatic leader throughout his life, "kind of Jewish Kennedy...