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http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/05/national/05RUBI.html?pagewanted=print&position=top
November 5, 2002
Jewish Defense League Leader Declared Brain Dead in Suicide
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
OS ANGELES, Nov. 4 — Irv Rubin, the leader of the Jewish Defense
League, was declared brain-dead today after
what federal authorities called a suicide attempt earlier in the
day.
Mr. Rubin was in jail here on charges of plotting to bomb a mosque and
the office of an Arab-American congressman.
Mr. Rubin used a razor to slash his neck and throat and then fell or
jumped from a balcony at the federal Metropolitan
Detention center as he and other inmates lined up for breakfast before
5:30 a.m., a spokesman for the United States
Marshals Service said.
"We're told that he is brain-dead and on life support," Mr. Rubin's
lawyer, Peter Morris, said.
Mr. Rubin's family said he had been attacked by someone. "My husband
would never kill himself. This was a hit, this
was a hit," said his wife, Shelley Rubin.
"I saw my husband yesterday. He was just the same as before. He didn't
say goodbye. He said I will see you in court
tomorrow. He was fine," she said.
Mr. Rubin and an associate were arrested on Dec. 11 on charges of
plotting to bomb the King Fahd mosque in Culver
City and an office of Representative Darrell Issa, Republican of
California, who is the grandson of Lebanese
immigrants.
Mr. Rubin was arrested after an F.B.I. informer delivered an explosive
powder that the authorities believed was the
last component in making pipe bombs. The charges carry up to 40 years
in prison.
Mr. Rubin, who by his own account has been arrested more than 40 times,
joined the J.D.L. early in the 1970's and
quickly moved up, becoming chairman in 1985.
In 1989, the leader of the rival Jewish Defense Organization, Mordechai
Levy, was convicted of assault after firing
shots at Mr. Rubin and wounding three others in New York.
According to his biography, Mr. Rubin learned to fight anti-Semitism
while growing up in Montreal, "where some hotel
owners and other business people hung signs reading `No Dogs or Jews
Allowed' on their doors and where French
Canadian schoolchildren taunted him because he was Jewish."
His family emigrated to the United States in 1961 and he became a
citizen and joined the Air Force in 1966, serving
four years.
In 1973, he served in Israel's civil defense corps during the Yom
Kippur War.
The J.D.L., whose symbol is a raised fist inside a Star of David, has
the motto "Never Again," referring to the
Holocaust.
It was founded in 1968 by Meir Kahane to mount armed response to
anti-Semitic acts in New York City.
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