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On Friday, February 7, 1992, some 4,000 grieving and incensed people attended the funeral of Phyliss LaPine, a thirty-eight-year-old Hasidic Jewish woman who had been brutally murdered by a burglar inside her Crown Heights, New York, apartment. She and her husband had recently moved with their four young children to this beleaguered Brooklyn neighborhood—home to thousands in the ultra-Orthodox Lubavitcher sect—in order to live in peace and to strengthen their religious ties. (1
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Levin, J., McDevitt, J. (1993). Minority against Minority. In: Hate Crimes. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6108-2_10
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