Jews vow to fight back as Brooklyn bias crimes spur a Jewish Power movement

Groups push combat classes and weapons training

The recent hate crimes against Jews across Brooklyn has ignited a movement pushing them to toughen up and learn how to fight back.

Groups like the Jewish Defense Organization, based in Midwood, and Bnai Elim, an off-shoot of the infamous Jewish Defense League based in Brighton Beach, are promoting combat classes and weapons training for the Torah reading crowd.

“We have hand-to-hand combat training in Midwood and legal gun training in Long Island,” said JDO spokesman Jeff Klein calling the “movement…a Jewish self-defense renaissance.”

Klein said the classes, held in secret locations in Midwood and on Long Island, have been around for years.

Last week the JDO posted fliers on its website and email blasted members saying “WANTED JEWS WITH GUTS” “to help guard synagogues and Jewish areas from neo-Nazis-KKK terror attacks…by any means necessary!”

The promotion is in response to the recent wave of hate crimes against Jews, especially the torching of three cars on Ocean Parkway last week follow by swastikas sightings near the smoldering scene and in Borough Park, Klein said.