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Shooting at a minibus of yeshiva students from Crown Heights

1ᵉʳ mars 1994·New York, pont de Brooklyn

Toll
1

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The Crown Heights neighborhood in New York is home to the world center of the Lubavitch Hasidic movement and one of the highest concentrations of yeshiva students in the United States.

In early March, a minibus carrying students returning from a visit to their hospitalized rabbi is targeted on the Brooklyn Bridge. A man opens fire with an automatic weapon from a car; a teenager is fatally wounded, several others injured.

The attack occurs a few days after the massacre at the Cave of Machpelah in Hebron, which the perpetrator cited as inspiration. Long described as a traffic incident, it would not be recognized as an antisemitic attack until years later, following a campaign led by the victim's mother.

Period :
Attacks (since 1970)
Type :
Attack
Region :
Americas
Country :
États-Unis
Sources

Encyclopaedia Judaica ; chroniques de presse contemporaines.

At the same place3

  1. 30 juillet 1902Émeute aux funérailles du grand rabbin Jacob Joseph~200 blessés
  2. 19-21 août 1991Crown Heights Riots1
  3. 28 déc. 2019Knife attack during Hanukkah1

In the same country16

  1. 17 décembre 1862Expulsion of Jews from the military department of Tennesseetoll not established
  2. juin 1877Exclusion from the Grand Union Hoteltoll not established
  3. 17 août 1915Trial of Leo Frank1
  4. 1920-1927Campagne du *Dearborn Independent*toll not established
  5. Sept. 1928Ritual murder accusationtoll not established
  6. 12 octobre 1958Attentat contre le Temple0
  7. 10 août 1999Shooting at the North Valley Jewish Community Center1 (un employé des postes tué dans la fuite)
  8. 4 juill. 2002Shooting at the El Al counter on the American national holiday2

And 8 more in the catalogue.

Event 2354 of 2483, in chronological order · Attacks (since 1970): 174 events in the catalogue