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 families are working to maintain their special bond after the death last year of Yankel Rosenbaum'...
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