Twenty years ago next week, on the night of Aug. 19, 1991 – the night that Gavin Cato and Yankel Rosenbaum were killed – my editor called me at home to tell me that riots had broken out on the streets of Crown Heights.
The annual National Jewish Retreat in the mountains just outside Salt Lake City was no ordinary vacation. According to one participant, the gathering offered a combination of “serenity and purpose.”