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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 ...
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 ...
A protest against Jews, held by the Westboro Baptist Church. Antisemitism has long existed in the United States. Most Jewish community relations agencies in the United States draw distinctions between antisemitism, which is measured in terms of attitudes and behaviors, and the security and status of American Jews, which are both measured by the occurrence of specific incidents.
One of America’s most successfully assimilated minorities is being yanked out of its hard-won comfort zone, astonishing Jewish scholars and religious leaders, as well as extremism experts who ...
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 ...
Their years of research and teaching together resulted in the book Blacks and Jews in America: An Invitation to Dialogue (Georgetown University Press). The work, which features long-form essays ...
During the American Civil War, approximately 3,000 Jews (out of around 150,000 Jews in the United States) fought on the Confederate side and 7,000 fought on the Union side. [29] Jews also played leadership roles on both sides, with nine Jewish generals serving in the Union Army, the most notable of whom were brigadier generals Edward S. Salomon ...
A federal judge on Tuesday issued a preliminary injunction against the prestigious University of California, Los Angeles, saying the school cannot allow Jewish students to be barred from accessing ...