The trial of three members of the Radical Jewish Union of Columbia University on charges of disrupting a religious service at Temple Emanu-El here has been re-scheduled again, this time for May 8. Originally set for Jan. 12, it was re-set for April 13. The defendants are Rabbi A. Bruce Goldman, rabbinical advisor to the RJU, Victor Levin, a graduate student at Columbia University and Anne Rosen, a graduate fellow at New York University. The charges grew out of demonstrations by the RJU at Temple Emanu-El on May 15 and May 29 last year. The hearing on Jan. 12, before Judge Morris Schwab in City Criminal Court, brought the first postponement. The court was told that Gerald Lefcourt, the attorney for the RJU defendants, was representing the 12 Black Panthers being tried here on conspiracy charges. Rabbi Goldman has been charged on two counts and the graduate students on one count each. The continued commitment of Mr. Lefcourt at the Panther trial was again cited in the second postponement request, as well as the fact that April 12 was one of the days of the Passover period. Rabbi Goldman said.
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