Lehrer waged a successful legal battle in the 1980s against the Jonathan Club and other social organizations whose members were predominantly white, non-Jewish men.
David A. Lehrer, a longtime leader in Los Angeles' Jewish community and attorney who helped draft the state's hate crime laws, has died. He was 75. He collapsed Wednesday at his Los Feliz home and could not be revived, his family said in a statement. Lehrer worked for almost 30 years in the West Coast office of the Anti-Defamation League, joining the ADL in 1975 as a civil rights attorney and later being promoted to regional director.
Longtime Times columnist Al Martinez wrote during the case that he'd known Lehrer many years and observed his fervent dedication to civil rights. 'He can identify an antisemite in a room full of liberals while blindfolded, picking the racist out by only his vibrations, like a tiger shark selects its next meal,' Martinez wrote in 1985.
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