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Jackie Mason: Politically Incorrect, a new Broadway show featuring the rabbi turned comedian, received decidedly mixed reviews when it opened two weeks ago. But you wouldn't know from the newspaper...
...Jews of Hebron have been proving just how tough they are since 1968, when firebrand Rabbi Moshe Levinger and his American-born wife defied the Israeli government to lead a group of compatriots into the city and establish the first Jewish settlement in the newly occupied territories. Years later, when Levinger's car was stoned on a downtown street, he opened fire, killing an innocent Palestinian shopkeeper; he served only 10 weeks in jail for the crime...
...statements of one rabbi, "One million Arabs are not worth one Jewish fingernail," and others like him, represent a twisted, vile perversion that bears no resemblance to legitimate Judaism...
...classmates for his character, personality and service. At the same time he was already a devoted adherent of Kahane, whose Jewish Defense League advocated violence against anyone it perceived as a threat to Jews. In a 1981 letter to the editor of the New York Times, Goldstein echoed the rabbi's call for the forcible expulsion of Arabs from Israel and the West Bank. "The harsh reality is: if Israel is to avert facing the kinds of problems found in Northern Ireland today, it must act decisively to remove the Arab minority from within its borders," he wrote...
...Rabbi Kahane had moved to Israel in 1972, and he established the extremist Kach Party two years later. When Kahane ran successfully for the Israeli parliament in 1984, Goldstein worked on his campaign. On the Kiryat Arba town council, Goldstein was considered the Kach representative, although he had not been elected officially on the party's ticket...