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Article: Simpson trial, Farrakhan strain black-Jewish relations
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- Jerusalem Post
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- October 17, 1995
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Tom Tugend
Jerusalem Post
10-17-1995
THE Jewish community, like most of the nation and world, had followed the twists and turns of the O.J. Simpson trial for nearly nine months, with varying degrees of fascination. Ironically, though, it wasn't until the final days of arguments and in the week following the jury's "not guilty" verdict that specifically Jewish sensitivities came into play.
Jewish passions were engaged, and continue to be - in Los Angeles and elsewhere, by a number of developments: The overwhelming grief of the family of murder victim Ronald Lyle Goldman, expressed with particular poignancy and anger during Yom Kippur services at their synagogue; the invocation of Hitler ...