1.0Jewish Telegraphic Agencyhttps://www.jta.orgDanihttps://www.jta.org/author/dani-sNew Crime Wave has Some Uneasy Jews Longing for the Jewish Defense League - Jewish Telegraphic Agencyrich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="VpVC9pGoSP"><a href="https://www.jta.org/2020/01/14/ny/jews-uneasy-jdl">New Crime Wave has Some Uneasy Jews Longing for the Jewish Defense League</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.jta.org/2020/01/14/ny/jews-uneasy-jdl/embed#?secret=VpVC9pGoSP" width="600" height="338" title="“New Crime Wave has Some Uneasy Jews Longing for the Jewish Defense League” — Jewish Telegraphic Agency" data-secret="VpVC9pGoSP" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript">
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Before Israel’s victory in 1967’s Six-Day War, Rabbi Haskel Lookstein said, “Jews walked around like ‘Question Marks.’ After, they walked around like ‘Exclamation Marks.’” Confidence was surging. In New York, grassroots operations, such as Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry (SSSJ) and the Jewish Defense League (JDL) dared to believe that Jews were tough enough to […]https://www.jta.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/jta-long-logo-bw.jpg600315