Police brutality was charged here by a member of the Canadian Parliament against a Montreal policeman accused of injuring a ye-shiva student as the climax of a series of anti-Semitic attacks against students and faculty members, including rabbis, of the Hassidic Torah Moshoi Yeshiva in this city.
Harry Blank, a member of Parliament whose constituency includes the ye-shiva’s neighborhood, charged that, when several men accosted some yeshiva students last week, the policeman acted with brutality against one of the students, Norman Mandel, 18, of New York. The policeman, according to the charge, pushed Mandel’s head through the windshield of a parked automobile. The youth was taken to a hospital, where 35 stitches had to be taken. A police board of inquiry is looking into the charges against the policeman, whose name is being shielded for the time being by police authorities.
A delegation of Jewish leaders conferred with leading police authorities here and said that, if no firm action is taken by the police; the Jews in the area would have to form their own self-defense corps. They said rabbis have often been subjected to indignities in the area, and students of the yeshiva have been attacked and threatened. The delegation was led by two members of the City Council, Fernand Alie and Hyman Brock, and by Paul Goldstein, executive vice-president of the Association of Survivors of Nazi Oppression.
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