Word: yankel
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CONVICTED. LEMRICK NELSON JR., 21, and CHARLES PRICE, 43, of civil rights violations in the 1991 death of Yankel Rosenbaum, a Hasidic Jew who was attacked by a band of black men after a car accident in which a Hasidic motorist struck and killed a black child; in New York City. Nelson was acquitted of murder in a 1992 state trial, but Attorney General Janet Reno ordered a federal investigation...
...recounting an incident--the murder of 47 Jews in Kishinev, Russia--which was part of a very real and very long history of anti-Semitism, particularly in Europe. In introducing the example of the Russian pogrom he attempts to link this reprehensible slaughter of Jews to the murder of Yankel Rosenbaum in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. As a result of what he characterizes as black malice toward Jews, he calls on the American Jewish community to "reconsider its allegiance to groups and peoples [namely, blacks] who, in the most unabashed manner, do not seek to reciprocate the Jew's embrace...
...Heights did not happen over night. The black rage in response to the death of a child and the Jewish fear in response to the murder of a man were many years in the making. That fact does not in any way excuse the rioting, the brutal murder of Yankel Rosenbaum or the hateful anti-Semitism that prompted them. But it may help to explain these things. And a similar historical examination may raise the level of dialogue on these issues from narrow, fearful accusation to informed conversation...
...alliance which has as its greatest strength a shared sense of struggle to affirm that which is most deeply human about us all. It would be a truly sad situation if, years from now, in the histories of American blacks and Jews, it was recorded that Gavin Cato, Yankel Rosenbaum and the unique coalition between blacks and Jews all died in the last decade of the 20th century. We must endeavor, even through hardship (a reality both our peoples have known), to ensure that such a history is never written. --Jason Purnell...
...piece this past Wednesday, Justin C. Danilewitz offers a powerful condemnation of the anti-Semitic murder of Yankel Rosenbaum. Like Mr. Danilewitz, we mourn Yankel Rosenbaum's death and believe we must fight anti-Semitism wherever it arises. We also agree with Danilewitz that people should not be attacked for the actions of other individuals within their community...