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...rioting which was precipitated in Crown Heights in 1991 was in response to the death of a black child, Gavin Cato, who was run over by a Hasidic Jewish driver. The rioting resulted in the fatal stabbing of Yankel Rosenbaum, a Hasidic doctoral student who had no other relation to the man who accidentally ran over the child than a shared religion. For his shared religion. For his shared religious beliefs, Rosenbaum was attacked by between 10 and 15 black youths as he crossed the street...
...Yankel Rosenbaum's murder is unlikely to cause American Jews to realign their traditionally liberal political allegiance in the way that the Dreyfus trial in France did in the 19th century. Perhaps it should. Jews, along with any group of people that prides itself upon rationality and intelligence, must reconsider its allegiance to groups and peoples who, in the most unabashed manner, do not seek to reciprocate the Jew's embrace...
...YORK CITY: A mixed-race jury convicted two black men of violating the civil rights of Yankel Rosenbaum, a Jewish scholar who was stabbed to death during the 1991 Crown Heights race riots. Although a sentence has not yet been handed down, Lemnick Nelson, 20, and Charles Price, 43, face life in prison. After a mostly black jury acquitted Nelson and Price in an earlier state criminal trial, Attorney General Janet Reno reopened the case in 1994 under fierce pressure from Jewish organizations who argued the attack was religiously motivated. Rosenbaum, who wore the traditional garb of an Hasidic...
Foxman cited the stabbing death of a Jewish scholar, Yankel Rosen-baum, in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn at the height of Black-Jewish tensions in New York City in the summer of 1991 and a shooting attack on followers of the late Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem M. Schneerson, as they drove along the Brooklyn Bridge...
...protestor was wrong in one respect. it wasn't Yankel Rosenbaum's fate that the jury was deciding--it was Lemrick Nelson's . Whether or not the verdict was fair, it was the product of a judicial system that, quite logically, favors the accused over the victim...