Sixty seconds was all an American Jew named Yankel needed to make a British Royal Guard crack up despite years of training. They are trained to uphold the strictest protocol, which includes standing ...

AS SHE prepared to mark today’s grim anniversary of Yankel Rosenbaum’s fatal stabbing, his mother told me how she joked happily with him hours before his brutal murder – and even sent money to him, ...

One evening Yankel got off the train at the Avenue M subway stop, a hat box in hand and a new suit in a garment bag flung over his shoulder. He had just come from Williamsburg where he had bought ...

She swayed ever so slightly to the beat – to Yankel’s annoyance. He could feel, just feel, that she, with her striking beauty, had caught the eye of other people there, men and women that had ...

FOURTEEN tumultuous years have done little to heal the hurt of Fay Rosenbaum, whose son Yankel was stabbed to death in a 1991 race riot that came to symbolize a dark period in the city’s history.

The family of Crown Heights stabbing victim Yankel Rosenbaum reached a settlement with the city yesterday – finally closing one of the darkest chapters in the city’s history. The Rosenbaums filed the ...

This originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. To read the previous chapter. And so after some perfunctory small talk, an appointment was arranged. Yankel would meet with someone called Leah ...

The brother of Yankel Rosenbaum, the visiting Jewish scholar murdered in the 1991 Crown Heights riots, is decrying the participation of the Rev. Al Sharpton in a synagogue’s panel discussion on the ...

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