Rabbi Meir Kahane, national chairman of the Jewish Defense League, received a $500-or-90-days sentence yesterday for obstructing governmental administration and disorderly conduct at a Dec. 30, 1969 demonstration at the Soviet Mission to the United Nations Criminal Court Judge Irving Lang gave Rabbi Kahane until May 7 to pay his fine, but the JDL chief’s lawyer, Philip Edelbaum, said he would appeal the sentence. Rabbi Kahane was unavailable for comment today He told newsmen after sentencing that “I intend to continue doing exactly what I’ve been doing,” adding: “I’m a rabbi and I’m trying to teach people that the pain of a Jew anywhere is the pain of a Jew everywhere.”
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