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64-Year-Old Brooklyn Rabbi Hit In Head With Brick

NEW YORK (JTA) — A 64-year-old rabbi, the father-in-law of popular Hasidic singer Benny Friedman, was hit in the head by a stone brick thrown at him while walking Tuesday morning in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn. Rabbi Avraham Gopin was hospitalized with “a broken nose, missing teeth, stitches on his head and lacerations […]

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