His talk was sponsored by the Zachor Club of the Stern College for Women Student Council and its Torah Activities Council in conjunction with Yeshiva College SC, Student Organization of Yeshiva, James Striar School of General Jewish Studies, Isaac Breuer College of Hebraic Studies, Irving I. Stone Beit Midrash Program, and the Eli and Diana Zborowski Professorial Chair in Interdisciplinary Holocaust Studies. Using blunt language and graphic details of violence, Mr. Leyden traced his initiation and involvement as a teenager in gangs and hate groups and recounted his development into a hard-core white supremacist. I did not know before. These include targeting adolescents experiencing the first pangs of teenage angst and alienation. Those feelings are also nurtured by access to white power music, available 24 hours a day on the Internet.
Music is one of the most powerful tools.
During the Holocaust, it wasn't the Brown Shirts who orchestrated the killing, it was the doctors and scientists of Nazi Germany. The father of two sons, Mr. Leyden says three things happened in his life to transform him. The first was his younger brother becoming a police officer. In my skinhead days, my buddies and I would throw a party every time a cop got killed. We'd laugh and joke and make fun of him.