In 1968, the American social conscience was focused on the civil rights movement, the war in Vietnam and the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy. Going unnoticed was that the short-term moratorium on Jew-hating, paid for with 6 million lives, had expired. So in the face of what would end up being a growing local and global anti-Semitism and a seemingly indifferent public, Rabbi Meir Kahane, an associate editor at The Jewish Press, co-created the Jewish Defense League.