The incident, in which the perpetrators are believed to be fellow officers, undermines the Jewish community’s faith in police, a former commissioner said.
The Jewish community’s chief rabbi has urged the government to punish China for what many consider a genocide as the pope and other Christian leaders remain mum on the issue.
The secretary of state was so dogged about helping free Soviet refuseniks that “he could not make a trip to the Middle East or Russia without calling us before, often during — even from Damascus — and almost always meeting with us afterwards,” one Jewish leader recalled.