Summary

FAMILY OF THE BOY KILLED IN THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE SHOOTING OF A VAN OF HASIDIC JEWS, 15 RABBINICAL STUDENTS IN ALL, SAY HIS KILLER SHOULD FACE THE DEATH PENALTY MEMBERS OF THE ULTRA-ORTHODOX JEWISH GROUP AND OTHERS MOURNED THE DEATH OF AARON HABERSTAM, 16, WHO DIED SATURDAY NIGHT, FOUR DAYS AFTER BEING PRONOUNCED BRAIN DEAD TODAY AMID HEAVY POLICE SECURITY, THOUSANDS GATHERED OUTSIDE THE BROOKLYN HEADQUARTERS OF THE LUBAVITCHER HASIDIC SECT FOR A FUNERAL THAT MIXED OLD WORLD TRADITION WITH MODERN MEDIA SAVVY AMONG THEM, GOV MARIO CUOMO, MAYOR RUDOLPH GIULIANI AND NUMEROUS OTHER POLITICIANS

Source CONUS Archive
Record ID 84817
Story Slug FUNERAL FOR VAN SHOOTING VICTIM (1994)
Location NEW YORK, NEW YORK
Format PKG
Date 03/06/1994
Archive Time 1:00:04
TRT 2:00
Supers Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky/Worldwide Lubavitch Movement New York City File Video Tuesday File Video Wednesday David Lebovitz/Lubavitcher Rabbi Avi Weiss/ Coalition For Jewish Concern Barbara Wood, Reporting
Video Description HASIDIC JEWS GATHERED FOR FUNERAL, MEN, BOYS, SOT, GRIEVING WOMAN, CASKET BEING CARRIED, PHOTO OF VICTIM, FILE OF SHOOTING SCENE, LIGHT SNOW FALLING, SUSPECT IN CUSTODY WALK SHOT, PEOPLE GATHERED FOR FUNERAL, SOT, PEOPLE GATHERED FOR FUNERAL, RUDOLPH GIULIANI, SOT, WS OF LARGE CROWD GATHERED, POLICE OFFICER
Description FAMILY OF THE BOY KILLED IN THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE SHOOTING OF A VAN OF HASIDIC JEWS, 15 RABBINICAL STUDENTS IN ALL, SAY HIS KILLER SHOULD FACE THE DEATH PENALTY MEMBERS OF THE ULTRA-ORTHODOX JEWISH GROUP AND OTHERS MOURNED THE DEATH OF AARON HABERSTAM, 16, WHO DIED SATURDAY NIGHT, FOUR DAYS AFTER BEING PRONOUNCED BRAIN DEAD TODAY AMID HEAVY POLICE SECURITY, THOUSANDS GATHERED OUTSIDE THE BROOKLYN HEADQUARTERS OF THE LUBAVITCHER HASIDIC SECT FOR A FUNERAL THAT MIXED OLD WORLD TRADITION WITH MODERN MEDIA SAVVY AMONG THEM, GOV MARIO CUOMO, MAYOR RUDOLPH GIULIANI AND NUMEROUS OTHER POLITICIANS
Script LEAD: GOODBYES ARE BID TO THE YOUNG HASIDIC STUDENT WHO DIED AFTER HE WAS GUNNED DOWN ON THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE LAST WEEK FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD SUNDAY AT LUBAVITCHER WORLD IN CROWN HEIGHTS FOR AARON HALBERSTAM BARBARA WOOD HAS MORE SCRIPT: THE AIR IN CROWN HEIGHTS WAS FILLED WITH DEEP ANGUISH AS AARON HALBERSTAM'S CASKET WAS DRIVEN PAST LUBAVITCHER WORLD HEADQUARTERS THE 16-YEAR-OLD DIED SATURDAY NIGHT WHILE CONNECTED TO A RESPIRATOR AT ST VINCENT'S HOSPITAL HIS FATAL WOUNDS A RESULT OF THE CARNAGE LAST TUESDAY MORNING ON THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE A LEBANESE NATIONAL, RASHEED BAZ, A 28-YEAR-OLD MAN WHO LIVES IN SUNSET PARK, BROOKLYN, IS IN POLICE CUSTODY ON 14 COUNTS OF ATTEMPTED MURDER, AND THE DEATH OF ARI HALBERSHAM BAZ'S EXACT MOTIVE HAS YET TO BECOME CLEAR BUT REGARDLESS OF MOTIVE, LUBAVITCHERS IN CROWN HEIGHTS SAY THIS WAS A HEINOUS, BIASED CRIME SOT-HEBREW CHANT SOT-LEBOVITZ SOT-EULOGY THOUSANDS CAME TO SAY A PRAYER AND A FINAL FAREWELL TO THE YOUNG MAN WHO WAS ONE OF THE REBBE'S FAVORITES SOT-EULOGY SOT-KRINSKI PRAYER VIGILS CONTINUE FOR THE THREE OTHERS WHO WERE INJURED NOCHAM SOSSUNKEN, AN 18-YEAR-OLD ISRAELI LUBAVITCHER IS IN CRITICAL CONDITION WITH A DISMAL PROGNOSIS AT ST VINCENT'S HOSPITAL WHILE THE LOSS OF ARI HALBERSTAM HITS HOME FOR THE HASIDIC COMMUNITY, RABBI AVI WEISS SAYS THIS CRIME IMPACTS ALL NEW YORKERS SOT-WEISS THE NUMBERS ALONE MANDATED INTENSE POLICE PRESENCE, WITH HUNDREDS OF UNIFORMED AND PLAIN CLOTHES OFFICERS ASSIGNED TO THE DETAIL AFTER THE EULOGY, THOUSANDS OF LUBAVITCHERS WALKED SOLEMNLY DOWN EASTERN PARKWAY WITH THEIR LAST GOOD WISHES FOR ARI HALBERSTAM STANDUP: FIVE-THOUSAND MOURNERS WILL FOLLOW THE PROCESSION FOR ABOUT 4 OR 5 BLOCKS AFTER THAT THE CARS WILL CONTINUE EAST TO MONTEFIORE CEMETERY IN QUEENS WHERE THEY WILL BURY ARI HALBERSTAM FOR THESE LUBAVITCHERS ARI HALBERSTAM IS A MARTYR WHO DIED FOR THE JEWISH FAITH
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Keywords

HATE CRIME AARON HALBERSTAM
CROWN HEIGHTS SHOOTING
HASIDIC JEW
LUBAVITCHER WORLD
VAN SHOOTING
RASHEED BAZ
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