Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...league was started last year by Orthodox Rabbi Meir Kahane, 36, a former lawyer who helps edit an emotional weekly devoted to Jewish affairs and who ministers to the congregation of the Rochdale Village Traditional Synagogue in the New York City borough of Queens. "We see here the beginnings of the 1920s in prewar Germany," warns Kahane. "This is a question of Jewish survival-nothing else." The newspaper ad, which Kahane wrote, declares: "Maybe some people and organizations are too nice. Maybe-just maybe -nice people build their own road to Auschwitz...
What has agitated Kahane and his followers is the rash of anti-Jewish statements made by some extremists, both black and white, during the past year...
...York has been particularly tense since the fight over neighborhood control of schools pitted Negro leaders, as well as city hall, against the heavily Jewish teachers' union (TIME cover, Jan. 31). For years, of course, neo-Nazi groups have also been taunting-and provoking-Jews...
Unwanted Protection. The Defense League's response so far has been to picket public meetings, bait Mayor John Lindsay, provide armed escorts for Jewish teachers in slum neighborhoods, and scuffle with Nazi Party members. J.D.L. also sued to reopen the City College of New York this spring after a student demonstration temporarily closed the campus...
Instead, the whole assembly read "On Love" from Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. The Epistle and Gospel were read by Jewish and Jesuit friends respectively...