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He launched a campaign against a proposed neo-Nazis march at a time the suburb was home to many Holocaust survivors. His rabbi at Skokie Central Congregation urged Jews to ignore the Nazis. "I jumped up and said, 'No, Rabbi. We will not stay home and close the windows.' "
He helped rally opposition to a planned neo-Nazi gathering in Skokie, Ill., in the 1970s that produced one of the most explosive cases in First Amendment law.