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Critics of the militias say the genuine concern on the part of patriots for second-amendment rights could, in many cases, turn into something more menacing. In October the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith issued a report titled Armed & Dangerous, which charged that militias were "laying the groundwork for massive resistance to the Federal Government and its law- enforcement agencies...
Shapiro was known as a star student and campus leader at his high school, Cranbrook Kingswood in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. He was elected to the regional board of the B'nai B'rith Youth organization for the Michigan region when he was a sophomore. By his senior year, he was president...
Even Harry Austrind Wolfson, the scholar mostengaged in Jewish life, believed Hillel was notall that important for Harvard. When asked how toallocate national B'nai B'rith funds, Wolfsonsuggested a Hebrew grammar book was the bestoption--not new Hillel organizations, according toKrumbein...
...problem for the Rev. Benjamin Chavis of the N.A.A.C.P. and Abraham Foxman of the Jewish Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, who met last week to discuss what to do about him in a meeting so sensitive they would not even confirm he was the topic under discussion. On Saturday, the N.A.A.C.P. said it would convene a national summit of black leaders and would pointedly include Farrakhan as a gesture of support, despite expected Jewish condemnation. "We have every right to convene African-American leadership," said Chavis. "There's a deep hunger in our community...
Several weeks after the speech, columnists Richard Cohen of the Washington Post and A.M. Rosenthal of the New York Times called for black leaders to repudiate Muhammad publicly. The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith took out a full-page ad in the New York Times with excerpts from the speech and the headline "Minister Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam claim they are moving toward moderation . . . you decide." Feeling the heat, black leaders began the ritual of condemnation and racial correctness. Jesse Jackson called Muhammad's words reprehensible, "antipapist and inane." But Farrakhan, defiant, gave...