THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Kahane Denies He and JDL Incited Tensions in NY Area
NEW YORK (JTA) —
Rabbi Meir Kahane, the
founder and head of the
Jewish Defense League, vig-
orously denied that the
presence of the JDL and
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himself in Borough Park peace which he said is even
has increased tensions in more important than the
that Brooklyn area between right to go to school.
the largely Orthodox Jewish
Kahane said that crimi-
population and Hispanic nals prey on Jewish areas
residents.
because Jews have been
He said that tensions have "patsies" for 2,000 years and
long existed in the area and have not fought back. He
that the JDL entered said criminals do not go into
Borough Park in response to an area such as Brooklyn's
pleas from Jews because of Bay Ridge section because it
what he claimed was a high has a heavy Italian and Slo-
rate of crime against Jews vak population and crimi-
in that area.
nals know these people will
Kahane made his re- protect themselves. For this
marks at a press conference reason, Kahane said, every
in a wake of a charge by Jew should purchase a legal
New York City Human N
Rights Commissioner
Eleanor Holmes Norton
that by leading 300 persons
in a demonstration through
Borough Park's Hispanic
area, Nov. 9, the JDL leader
"incited inter-ethnic ten-
sions." Following Kahane's
demonstration two synago-
gues, the homes of two
Hasidic rabbis and a Jewish
school, were firebombed.
Ms. Norton made her
charge in a letter to Fed-
eral Judge Jack B. Wein-,
stein, who had sentenced
Kahane to serve a year in
prison at a Manhattan fed-
eral detention center. She
said that Kahane -abused
the privileges Weinstein
gave him in allowing him
to leave the detention cen-
ter three times a day for
meals and prayers.
Weinstein ordered that
Kahane be accompanied by
deputy federal marshalls .
during his trips outside. '-
The JDL leader said that
Ms. Norton should be told
that human rights includes
first the right to live in
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tivists to join a civilian
crime patrol that is being
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NEW YORK (JTA) —
Jewish residents on the
Lower East Side, upset by
recent violence /and the
burning of a synagogue,
have-been assured by city
officials and the police de-
partment that tactical pa-
trol units and decoy cops
would be ordered into the
area.
A fire, reported as suspi-
cious, caused extensive dam-
age to a building on Henry
Street which houses three
Orthodox congregations.
Polices managed to save
four Torahs and one canoe-
labrum from the building
but reportedly as many as
13 other scrolls were dam-
aged or destroyed in the two
alarm fire that raged for
close to two hours before it
was brought under control.
A Bronx youth was arrested
near the fire by .police and
after questioning was
charged with arson and bur-
glary.
Ex-Guard Convicted
of Killing Israeli
JERUSALEM — David
Pr'otter, .former security
guard at the Israel Consu-
late in JohannesbUrg wa:
convicted of murdering Is-
rael security official Giora
Raviv during a day-long con-
sulate siege last April and
was jailed for 25 years.
His brother Charles, an
accomplice in the siege, was
ordered to serve 30 months
in prison.
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