Eleven boys, aged seven to 14, were placed on probation when arraigned in Juvenile Court here on charges of desecrating the Benjamin F. Teller Memorial Synagogue. Their parents were ordered to pay the damage, estimated at $1,000.
Two leaders of the Jewish community have been appointed by Mayor Joseph S. Clark Jr., to the nine-man City Commission on Human Relations which will launch an investigation this week into the juvenile anti-Semitic wave here. They are Leon C. Sunstein, honorary president of the Alhed Jewish Appeal, and Nathan L. Edelstain, national secretary of the American Jewish Congress.
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