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Curtis Sliwa and his unarmed neighborhood safety patrol, The Guardian Angels went into Crown Heights in 1991 during the riots and stayed for 3 months. Sliwa talks here in this video about the riots and about two Rebbe Dollars he got from the rebbe.

Video – Curtis Sliwa on the Riots and the Rebbe!

Curtis Sliwa and his unarmed neighborhood safety patrol, The Guardian Angels went into Crown Heights in 1991 during the riots and stayed for 3 months. Sliwa talks here in this video about the riots and about two Rebbe Dollars he got from the rebbe.

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12 Comments

  • reader

    Boruch Hashem, that Curtis Sliwa and the guardian angels cared about helping protect Jews in Crown Heights. However, his story seems a little mixed up-the Rebbe would not have given dollars at a farbrengen on Shabbos.

  • sholom

    How did he get a Rebbe Dollar on Shabbos!?!?!?

    Some detail is missing!!!!

  • Menachem

    Yep, it sure dosn’t make sense. Maybe he was by the Rebbe twice.

  • qkfngers

    okay, okay he got the days/dates mixed up, whatever. very cool story. nice to hear.

  • !!!!!!!!!!!!1

    which dollars has pictures of the rebbe inserted over george washington? this whole story sounds bogus to me.
    also, he claims that the rebbe was babbling along etc. – a bit inappropriate for crownheights.info to post such a vide

  • levi

    On Sundays, during dollars, there was a guy outside 770 that would stick a picture of the Rebbbe over Washington’s face and sometimes frame it etc. for a small charge.

  • Disgust

    The way he talks is disrespectful – whether he’s a skeptic or not, it doesn’t make a difference. Any decent goy wouldn’t speak about an elder like that.

    All credit to the Guardian Angels. But this is unacceptable.

  • just speculating

    it’s possible that he gave him the dollars motzei shabbos…

  • Yak

    People, please. There is a VIDEO of the Rebbe giving him a dollar on Sunday and then giving him another one “for extra protection”. I heard him YEARS AGO (when it was fresher in his mind probably) tell about it on his radio show, very reverently, and say how he felt the Rebbe’s brocha saved his life.