Elected officials gathered to remember Ari Halberstam, a yeshiva student killed 10 years ago in a Brooklyn Bridge terrorist attack. New York Gov. George Pataki and Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) pledged to push for tougher anti-terrorism legislation at Monday’s memorial for Halberstam, a Chasidic youth killed March 1, 1994, by a Lebanese man seeking vengeance against Jews for Middle East violence.
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