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Crown Heights is a neighborhood in the central portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn.
Crown Heights is a neighborhood in the central portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn.
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Teen boy fatally shot in Brooklyn
A 14-year-old boy has been shot and killed in Brooklyn. Police say they are investigating the circumstances surrounding the fatal shooting of Mario Smith on Kingston Avenue in the Crown Heights section. They say officers responding to a 911 call about...Tags: Brooklyn (New York City), Crimes, Murder, Police, Juvenile Delinquency
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Chabad-Lubavitch leaders call for courage after killings
anthony.destefano@newsday.comOutraged by the killing of one of their rabbis and his wife in India, leaders of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement called on members to forge ahead with courage and determination in their efforts to serve Jews worldwide. Flanked by Police Commissioner Ray...Tags: Society, Trips and Vacations, Raymond W. Kelly, Business Trips, Terrorism
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NY Jewish group IDs 4 killed in India attacks
Associated Press WriterThree New Yorkers were among the six hostages slain in a chaotic terrorist attack on a Jewish outreach center in India, including the rabbi and his wife who ran the busy branch of the ultra-Orthodox Chabad-Lubavitch movement. Rabbi Gavriel Noach...Tags: New York City Police Department, Diseases, Terrorism, Raymond W. Kelly, Hanukkah
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Couple killed in Mumbai mourned
Special to NewsdayFor the past five years when Rivkah Holtzberg and her husband, Rabbi Gavriel Noach Holtzberg, wanted to eat kosher food, they couldn't simply walk down the street and purchase the meals from a store because such stores didn't exist where they lived in...Tags: Woodbury (Oyster Bay, New York), Judaism
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Former Brooklyn rabbi, wife may be hostages in Mumbai
A former Brooklyn rabbi and his wife were among those feared held hostage in a Mumbai Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters as Indian snipers opened fire on suspected militants inside last night. The Jewish group's headquarters was among 10 places attacked by...Tags: Brooklyn (New York City), Barack Obama, Hinduism, Manmohan Singh, Nashville
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Former Brooklyn rabbi and wife may be hostages in Mumbai
COMBINED NEWS SERVICES A former Brooklyn rabbi and his wife were among those feared held hostage in a Mumbai Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters as Indian snipers opened fire on suspected militants inside last night. The Jewish group's headquarters was...Tags: Brooklyn (New York City), Barack Obama, Hinduism, Manmohan Singh, Nashville
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Ex-NYers likely held captive in Mumbai
A former Brooklyn rabbi and his wife were among those feared held hostage in a Mumbai Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters as Indian snipers opened fire on suspected militants inside Thursday night. The Jewish group's headquarters was among 10 places attacked...Tags: Barack Obama, Hinduism, Manmohan Singh, Nashville, Taj Mahal
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Chabad mourns its loss
Groups of bearded men in black blazers and wide-brimmed hats prayed aloud and chanted inside the Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters in Brooklyn on Friday, grieving the loss of friends killed in the terrorist siege in India this week.
Many had not slept in two...Tags: Brooklyn (New York City), Family, California, Raymond W. Kelly, Terrorism
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Rabbi, wife found slain in center
The Jews of India form a tiny part of a religious population that is overwhelmingly Hindu and often torn by interfaith strife. So when Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg moved to Mumbai five years ago to open a branch of the ultra-orthodox Chabad-Lubavitch...Tags: Brooklyn (New York City), New York, Judaism, Society, Washington Post Co.
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Crown Heights shopkeeper shoots and kills 2 gunmen
rocco.parascandola@newsday.com; Pervaiz ShallwaThe wife of the wounded Crown Heights shopkeeper who turned the tables on two armed men - grabbing one of their guns and shooting them both dead - yesterday said she wasn't shocked at his heroics. "I know him," Youssouf Drame's wife, Soriah Williams,...Tags: Firearms, Crimes, Injuries, Murder, Defense
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Prosecutors: Cop-killer suspect threatened witness
A suspect in the murder of New York police Officer Russel Timoshenko once told a female witness that she would be killed as well if she disclosed incriminating information about the killing, a prosecutor said Tuesday. The revelation came at the tail...Tags: Defendants, Robert Ellis, Justice System, Assault, Trials
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Partner of cop killed in Crown Heights testifies
anthony.destefano@newsday.comBaring his arm and chest in court, a New York police detective showed rapt jurors the scars he received after being shot during a July 2007 traffic stop of a stolen BMW in Crown Heights that took the life of Police Officer Russell Timoshenko. At the...Tags: Vehicles, Robert Ellis, Assault, Trials, Crimes
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