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Many refused to come out of the tunnel, and as a result, the New York City Police Department arrested nine people. [14] Those arrested were between the ages of 19 and 22. [ 7 ] Of those arrested, five men were later arraigned in front of a Brooklyn judge on charges including criminal mischief , reckless endangerment and obstructing governmental ...
‘This was the most frightening thing I’ve ever seen in my entire life,’ said one member of the synagogue
An investigation by the city's Department of Buildings uncovered a tunnel that was 60-foot-long (18.3 meter), 8-foot-wide (2.4 meter) and 5-foot-high (1.5 meter) located underneath the global ...
At another, smaller site with a single surface entrance, it was found that the main tunnel hewing could have been completed within about ten weeks, with other hewers concurrently carving out the rooms in parallel, the bottleneck being the removal of material via that single tunnel, which lengthened the time required to complete the hiding ...
The Georgian Jews (Georgian: ქართველი ებრაელები, romanized: kartveli ebraelebi, Hebrew: יהדות גאורגיה, romanized: Yahadut Georgia) are a community of Jews who migrated to Georgia during the Babylonian captivity in the 6th century BCE. [3]
In one such instance, the local Jewish paper remarked, "we want to make good American citizens out of our Russian brothers" and called the Yiddish speaking immigrants "ignorant." When wealthy German Jews organized the Standard Club and purchased a mansion for its clubhouse in 1905, Yiddish Jews were pretty much entirely excluded. In 1913 ...
The deadliest attack on Jews in U.S. history was perpetrated at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018 by a white nationalist who believed in the far-right “great replacement” conspiracy theory that ...
The synagogue was built in the early 1900s [2] or 1910s [3] for the city's Ashkenazi Jewish population. Attendance rates declined after the establishment of Bolshevik rule in Georgia and the suppression of religion that accompanied it.