Friday, July 20, 1973-17

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

NY patrolmen's Group Chief Is Hit for Statements on Hasidim

PBA ,
According to McKiernan, on a departmental level of
NEW YORK (JTA) — A "Front and Center," the
"A police officer was hit better familiarizing them-
Jewish community leader has publication.
selves with the customs of
The letter referred to an twice when a man deliberate- the
told the president of the Pa-
hasidim, incidents like
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A in central Jerusalem.
ly
drove
his
automobile
into
The girl, appearing on a trolmen's Benevolent Associ- incident on June 2 — a Sab- the patrolman." He did not one in question would never
17-year-old girl involved in
bath — when several hundred
contradictory television and TV documentary on poverty, ation that a letter he wrote hasidic Jews battled police- say the driver was a hasid. occur."
Becker wrote, "I personally
newspaper interviews about told an interviewer that she to Police Commissioner Don- men in the Crown Heights
her family's alleged poverty, went hungry. In a subsequent ald F. Cawley claiming that section of Brooklyn after believe after a separate in-
"14 patrolmen were injured
vestigation, many of your
tried to commit suicide. Mira interview published in the by
vicious gangs of Hasidics" several of their number were
Nadav was stopped by mem- newspaper Maariv, the girl (sic) was "erroneous" in arrested for allegedly attack- facts (are) erroneous ones."
bers of her family as she was said the TV interviewer had
He added, "However, I
ing two automobiles driven
about to drink a bottle of put words into her mouth and point of fact.
on a feeder road normally have full faith in our legal
Jerome
M.
Becker,
presi-
bleach in their slum quarter admitted that she had a regu-
barred to through traffic on system, especially the Civili-
lar job with a Jerusalem dent of the Metropolitan New Saturdays.
an Review Board which as I
film projection firm. Maariv York Coordinating Council on
is independently
28635 Southfield
Crowds of hasidim later understand
accused the TV news depart- Jewish Poverty, made that
investigatng the subject in-
congregated
outside
the
71st
357-3266
ment of faking the poverty charge in a letter to PBA
cident."
Precinct
station
house
sever-
President
Robert
M.
McKier-
Overnite
Service.
documentary, a charge vig-
Becker stated in his letter
orously denied by the TV nan. A copy of the letter was al blocks away. McKiernan that hasidim would never
made available to the Jewish castigated the senior officers drive a car on the Sabbath
news director.
at the precinct headquarters
Premier Golda Meir en- Telegraphic Agency.
for
allegedly permitting and observed: "Perhaps if
Becker
wrote
in
response
to
tered the controversy when
"bands
of hasidics to take someone took the initiative
she remarked publicly that McKiernan's letter to Caw-
over
the
station house."
existing social gaps did not ley which was published in
justify a TV reporter faking
a hunger situation. Welfare
Minister Michael Hazani said
Volunteer Drivers
on television that. nobody in
Israel goes hungry for lack
Men & Women
of money because welfare
NEW YORK—Dr. Bernard include dialogues, film show-
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Dr. Mandelbaum also an-
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and
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claimed the Maariv reporter ity leaders there would be
protection, retirement, or
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