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Even today, older Lubavitchers call those violent days a “pogrom,” a Russian word for ethnic cleansing.

Over the next three days, a race riot erupted, in which black residents protested the police, stormed the Lubavitcher headquarters, and targeted Jewish businesses.

The real estate entrepreneur is not a Lubavitcher but admired the rabbi and his teachings and has visited the site several times.

Riots erupted after his arrival, after a Lubavitcher driver struck and killed a black child and in retaliation a group of young black men fatally stabbed a rabbinical scholar.

On Fridays, he ate in a kosher dining hall, either Hillel or the Chabad house, which is affiliated with the Lubavitcher Hasidim.