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Killer: Jews my target Cabby in ’94 B’klyn Bridge outrage ’fesses By LARRY CELONA Last Updated: 4:33 AM, March 26, 2012 Posted: 3:13 AM, March 26, 2012The livery driver whose two-gun attack on a group of Hasidic students on the Brooklyn Bridge shocked the city 18 years ago has finally admitted that he targeted them because they were Jewish, The Post has learned.Rashid Baz was convicted in 1995 of murdering Yeshiva student Ari Halberstam, 16, and trying to kill more than a dozen others in a van with a hail of bullets he fired on a Manhattan approach to the...

<p>MORRIS TWP. -- With a bullet still lodged in his brain from a shooting in New York 10 years ago, Nachum Sasonkin turned a page in his life and became a rabbi.</p> <p>"I just want to say I'm very happy to come to this point today," Sasonkin said to a roomful of reporters before his ordination as a rabbi Sunday at the Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbinical College of America. Sasonkin was one of 75 students to become rabbis during the Sunday afternoon ceremony.</p>