Civil Liberties War Among Jews  Only One Jewish Group Versus
Ashcroft  An abiding value I learned growing up poor in a Boston
Jewish ghetto during the so-called Great Depression was social
justice. Not the poisonous kind in Father Charles E. Coughlin's
national anti-Semitic newspaper called Social Justice, but the
real thing—the Bill of Rights' protections of each individual
against the state.  Franklin D. Roosevelt carried our Ward 12
overwhelmingly in all his campaigns, but the FDR Democrats were
the conservatives in my neighborhood. The rest of the residents
were socialists, Communists, and so far as I knew, nonviolent
anarchists. I didn't see an actual Republican living there until
I was a teenager.  Most of the adults were immigrants, including
my parents. Many of them had come to America to escape the
pervasive prejudices of the Old Country, the pogroms, and the
routine injustices of the czar's authoritarian state.  Whatever
our fierce differences in politics, most of us Jews were pro-
labor and against