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Michael E. Staub is the author, most recently, of Torn at the
Roots: The Crisis of Jewish Liberalism in Postwar America
(Columbia).
In October 1968, at the height of the Ocean Hill-Brownsville crisis, New York Mayor John Lindsay got heckled off the stage at a synagogue in Brooklyn.