The New York World’s exposé of Ku Klux Klan methods describes an appeal for legislation by Charles Wood of Brooklyn that would prevent a Jew from holding any public office, voting, owning real estate, engaging in religious devotion or transacting any business.
50 years ago Oct. 4, 1946
The United Nations Rescue and Relief Agency in Washington suggests the fixed number of refugees President Truman would ask Congress to admit to the United States be raised from 50,000 to 150,000.
25 years ago Oct. 8, 1971
In Jerusalem, the Jewish Defense League’s Rabbi Meir Kahane warns that for every Jew who dies in the Soviet Union, two Soviet diplomats in the world will also die.
10 years ago Oct. 10, 1986
The U.S. Supreme Court says it will hear the appeal of Shaare Tefila Congregation of Silver Spring, Md., which was defaced with anti-Semitic epithets and Nazi symbols two years earlier.