A 'beautiful' friendship: Two families connected by Crown Heights tragedy maintain special bond 30 years later
Usually on the anniversary of the Crown Heights riots, Carmel Cato reflects on the too-short life of his son, Gavin, a 7-year-old Black boy whose death under the wheels of an out-of-control car 30 years ago sparked three days of violence. Killed, too, that night was Yankel Rosenbaum, 29, a rabbinical student from Australia stabbed to death in the violent aftermath for only one reason — he was Jewish, like the man behind the wheel of the car that killed the boy. Today, the Cato and Rosenbaum fa...
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