A city criminal court judge has dismissed charges of disrupting a religious service against Rabbi A. Bruce Goldman, adviser to the Radical Jewish Union at Columbia University, and Victor Levin, now a graduate student in Madison. Wisconsin. The charges stemmed from RJU demonstrations at Temple Emanu-El, the largest Reform synagogue in the world in May. 1970.
Charges originally had been filed against the two men and against Anne Rosen, a member of the RJU. Miss Rosen agreed last June 9 to accept a lesser charge of disorderly conduct and she was given an unconditional discharge on her guilty plea. Charges were continued against Rabbi Goldman and Levin but there were repeated postponements on their requests for a jury trial until last week when the case was heard by Judge Frederick L. Strong. He dismissed the charges “in the interest of Justice” without further explanation.
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