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Stanley Isaac Chera–an American real estate developer and founder of Crown Acquisitions ‑ died on April 11, 2020 due to complications brought on by COVID-19. Chera was born in 1942 in Brooklyn to a Syrian Jewish family. In 1947, his father Isaac Chera opened a retail store called Young World in Brooklyn, New York. The family later purchased the building and grew Young World into a chain purchasing the buildings as they expanded. In the 1980s, Chera (then in charge of the family company) started purchasing real estate in New York City at first as a minority partner and later in 2000s as the lead developer. Chera was known for developing or "repositioning" the retail portion of his buildings and then selling the property. In a join...

Romi Cohn –a Czechoslovakian-born American rabbi, mohel, and real estate developer – died after contracting coronavirus on March 24, 2020. Avraham Hakohen Cohn was born on March 10, 1929 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. He was one of seven children. World War II and the Holocaust See also: The Holocaust in Slovakia During World War II, most Slovak Jews were deported to concentration camps. While Cohn's family managed to sneak him into Hungary, his mother, as well as two of his brothers and two of his sisters died in camps. In Hungary, Cohn studied in a Hasidic yeshiva until 1944 when the Nazis occupied the country. At that point, at the age of 15, he escaped back into Slovakia and joined a partisan brigade fighting the Nazis. As a ...

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Stanley Chera, real estate developer

Romi Cohn, rabbi, mohel & real estate developer