Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Patricia Capozzalo, a 38-year-old mother of three, was shot in the back and neck by masked men in front of her Brooklyn home. Investigators called the shooting highly unusual: female relatives of mobsters have traditionally been spared by avenging...
...full-page ad announcing "The Time for Your Redemption Has Arrived" has run in the New York Times, and Habad speakers have been crisscrossing the U.S. to deliver their message. And who might the Messiah be? Easy, say Israel's Habadniks: their leader, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, 89, of Brooklyn...
Within Habad, a well-financed organization with 30,000 followers in Brooklyn and at least 100,000 worldwide, the expectation of the Messiah's coming has been building since Schneerson in the past few years began exhorting his disciples more and more to actively prepare for the day. The crumbling of the Iron Curtain and the Soviet Union's demise, explains Habad spokesman Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky, "lead one to think that these extraordinary, shattering events are a precursor to something even more cataclysmic...
Celia's children live in cold countries. Her son has immigrated to the East bloc. Her daughter Felicia is mad. And her eldest daughter Lourdes -- a ferocious anticommunist who scans the newspapers for signs of leftist conspiracies -- owns the Yankee Doodle Bakery in Brooklyn and sells apple pie to Americans...
RELIGION Is the Messiah alive and living in Brooklyn...