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Category Archives: Crown Heights
Chabadnik Leah Kleim Knifed In San Diego
Leah calls Sunday afternoon. "On Thursday, I got a call inviting me to San Diego for Shabbat. So I flew in. And I ended up getting stabbed?" Luke: "What happened?" Leah: "I was up late drinking Heinekens with the rabbi. … Continue reading
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Crown Heights Controversy
From New York: The Crown Heights community and it’s representatives "the Netzigim of Crown Heights" have tried in vain for the past several years to rid it’s self of the criminal dictator which heads the CHJCC, by attempting to organize … Continue reading
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Orthodox Jewish Vigilantes In Crown Heights
Here’s a website with the lowdown on Jewish life in Crown Heights: Lieb Skoblo, a Coordinator in Crown Heights Shmira was convicted of beating a black youth while yelling racial slurs at him. The newyork Amsterdam News reported; “Reports that … Continue reading
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Tagged amsterdam news, andrew charles, auxiliary police, bias crime, brooklyn new york, brooklyn new york city, brutal attack, Crown Heights, jewish week, jewish youth, new york post, orthodox jewish, patrol cars, police sergeant, racial slurs, robbery investigators, soviet style, vigilante group, volunteer patrol, yitzhak
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Jewish Code Of Silence Complicates Probe Into Jewish-On-Goyish Crown Heights Attack
From the New York Daily News: Long before the first rapper stopped snitching or any Mafiosi swore an oath of omertà, there was the Jewish law of mesira. The tenet that forbids Jews from informing on fellow Jews is one … Continue reading
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Tagged albany ave, andrew charles, busta rhymes bodyguard, city cop, code of jewish law, code of silence, college sophomore, Crown Heights, fellow jews, Hasidim, hebrew word, initial probe, jewish men, mafiosi, new york daily news, orthodox community, police sources, rap world, stationhouse, street cred
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