100%

Scanned image of the page. Keyboard directions: use + to zoom in, - to zoom out, arrow keys to pan inside the viewer.

Page Options

Share

Something wrong?

Something wrong with this page? Report problem.

Rights / Permissions

The University of Michigan Library provides access to these materials for educational and research purposes. These materials may be under copyright. If you decide to use any of these materials, you are responsible for making your own legal assessment and securing any necessary permission. If you have questions about the collection, please contact the Bentley Historical Library at bentley.ref@umich.edu

September 08, 1989 - Image 31

Resource type:
Text
Publication:
The Detroit Jewish News, 1989-09-08

Disclaimer: Computer generated plain text may have errors. Read more about this.

Reserve This Date

Sunday, November 19, 1989

Place: Westin Hotel

Defamation League of the
B'nai B'rith. In the early
1980s, he was a maverick
Jewish defense League ac-
tivist in Los Angeles, where
his harassment of white hate
groups became legendary."
In those same years, accor-
ding to Friedman, Levy
sometimes turned up on the
East Coast as a security
agent for the anti-Semitic
group headed by Lyndon
LaRouche. Levy claims he in-
filtrated the LaRouche group
as an undercover agent.
Friedman states that Levy
gave the FBI, the ADL and
the office of the Manhattan
District Attorney "dirt" on
LaRouche operations.
The incident in Greenwich
Village, reported Friedman,
stemmed from a feud between
Levy and West Coast JDL
head Iry Rubin that began in
the early 1980s when Levy
left the Los Angeles JDL
chapter because it was not
"militant enough" for him.
Levy then created the JDO,
which, stated Friedman, "was
really nothing more than a
roll of quarters and a phone
booth across from his favorite
deli where Levy made harass-
ing telephone calls to
`enemies of the Jewish peo-
ple.' "

Rubi refused to be upstag-
ed by L;:vy. Friedman writes
that Rubin told him in 1985
that he had beat Levy "so
severely that he was
hospitalized. Rubin now
denies that he beat Levy."
Levy claims that after he
spoke on a Los Angeles radio
talk show in June, he was
beat with a pipe by Rubin and
fellow JDL leader Steve Rom-
bom. On the talk show, Levy.
charged Rubin with drug-
dealing, extortion and
laundering money for a con-
victed crime figure. Rubin
denies the charges.
Both of Levy's alleged at-
tackers have violent histories,
according to Friedman. In
1976 and 1977, Rombom had
spent 20 months in federal
prison for JDL pipe-bomb at-
tacks on the Iraqi, Soviet and
Polish missions to the United
Nations, two Manhattan
banks, and the national head-
quarters of the American
Communist Party. Friedman
describes him as a "strapping,
strutting, gun-toting private
investigator from Brooklyn"
whose "tough-guy obses-
sions" may have begun in the
psychiatric institutions
where he spent eight years of
his youth."
Rombom, asserts Friedman,
"is a tragic example of the
sort of psychopath [JDL
founder Mehl Kahane at-
tracted to the JDL." ❑

75th Anniversary Dinner

Yeshiva Beth Yehudah

Join Us in Celebrating a Detroit Tradition

75th Anniversary Chairmen

David Hermelin
Paul Borman

Harold Beznos

Jerry Luptak

Golden Torah Award

Humanitarian Award

Dinner Chairmen

Ivan
Bloch

David
Holtzman

Spencer
Partrich

Mickey
Shapiro

I. William
Sherr

Dinner Committee in Formation

6:00
7:00

Keith Schare
Designer

PM
PM

Cocktails
Dinner

For reservations call 557-6750

Advertising Journal Deadline: October 31, 1989

Couvert
$125 per person

It's Cool To Dance At .. .

DESIGN-IT 5 INC.

Custom Laminated Furniture
Residential • Commercial

DANCE STUDIO

Enroll
Now!

Call
73 7-2 611

Tap • Jazz • Ballet • Modern
Boys' Classes • Baby Rhythm

Free Set-up • Free Delivery

Free Consultation with our experienced Design Staff

24645 Halsted Rd. • Farmington Hills

471-3223

in Tiffany Plaza • Northwestern Hwy. & 14 Mile

..........•••.••••••••••••••••
Film to Video Transfer • •

• Transfer Movies 8mm-16mm to VHS or Beta •
• 1-200 FEET $20.00
• 401-600 FEET $39.00 41
• • 201-400 FEET $26.00 • 601-800 FEET $52.00 •

801-1000 FEET $65.00
• Nom Film over 1,000 feet add 64 a foot. Tape $8.00 Additional feE` —

CRITUR.B



I-A
• GA

I Wi l k



3017 N. Woodward
(3 Blks. South of 13 Mile) .
Royal Oak

Daily &Sat.
Sat. 10-6, Fri. 10-8 •

288 5444

••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••

• BUY—SELL—TRADE

-

To/From: Metropolitan From/To: Any Address
Airport
in Southfield
Two Hours Notice or Less
Lathrup Village
For $ 15.00 /person
Bingham Farms

Mon.-Fri. • 6 a.m.-6 p.m. Nisnn,,,59p,P)

* * SPECIAL WITH THIS AD * *
E xp.
Ride from metro to any north area $ 12.00 12/ 31/89

Comfort • Safety • Reliability

LC ITST 7 7 o p-1;545E2

JN

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 31

Back to Top

© 2024 Regents of the University of Michigan