Nachum Sasonkin, shot in an attack by an Arab terrorist 10 years ago on the Brooklyn Bridge, was ordained as a rabbi. Sasonkin was critically injured when he was 18 in the attack on a van full of Chasidic Jews in New York on March 1, 1994, which killed Ari Halberstam, 16.
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