Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Frank Collin, 33, is a swaggering bullyboy who likes to dress up in a Nazi uniform, spout totalitarian dogma and howl racial slurs. Aryeh Neier, 41, the son of Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany, runs the American Civil Liberties Union, an organization that protects individual freedoms. For the past 14 months, Neier and the A.C.L.U. have defended the right of Collin and a small band of brownshirts to taunt the citizens of Skokie, Ill., thousands of whom are survivors of Nazi death camps...
...defend what Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes used to call '"freedom for the thought that we hate" is not easy to accept, for a public whose thoughts naturally turn to gas chambers and attempted genocide. The A.C.L.U. has been bitterly attacked for defending Nazis' rights. Its membership, heavily Jewish, has dropped from a peak of 270,000 in 1976 to 200,000 today. A resultant $500,000 decline in dues and gifts has caused staff layoffs of up to 15% in some state offices. There is now less money to defend civil rights and liberties of a more sympathetic...
Having already mentioned the scenic wonders of Washington St., we should pass on to the Premier Deli, which sits just under the subway stop at Dover Station. The Premier Deli is a great place to run away to mainly because it has some of the best, lowest-priced Jewish deli food around; the people who work there are also incredibly nice, and for some unfathomable reason the place is never very crowded. The trip out there is fun, and if you are homesick for chicken soup or the like, this should do the trick...
...involved, but there are even greater risks in the alternatives. Gradually expelling the Arabs from the West Bank would be morally unthinkable, and would condemn Israel to a permanent state of hostility with its neighbors. Annexing the West Bank and Gaza, with their 1.1 million Arabs, would turn the Jewish state that Israelis want into the first stage of the binational country that P.L.O. Leader Yasser Arafat seeks. Keeping the Palestinians under occupation, no matter how benign, will only churn up the will to struggle that is expressed in this popular West Bank ballad...
...charges as carrying weapons illegally or disturbing the peace have increased from 80 to 300 in a year. Criminal incidents attributed to the far right rose from 330 in 1976 to 613 last year. More disturbing, there has been an upsurge in anti-Semitic activities, including the desecration of Jewish synagogues and cemeteries with swastikas or Nazi slogans...