Shelley Rubin

Shelley Rubin is the widow of JDL International Chairman Irv Rubin, and is currently the chairman and CEO of the USA-based, Kahanist, Jewish Defense League, a group which was classified as "a right-wing terrorist group" by the FBI in 2001.

Biography Rubin is Jewish, of the USA-based, Kahanist, Jewish Defense League, a group which was classified as "a right-wing terrorist group" by the FBI in 2001.

In 1988, she was editor of the B'nai B'rith Messenger.

In 2002, after her husband's death she called for an investigation, saying he would not have committed suicide.

Lancaster City Council Prayer lawsuit She and Maureen Feller filed suit in 2010 in Los Angeles Superior Court to try to stop the City of Lancaster City Council sessions from including a Christian prayer. She described the use of the prayer by Rev. Martin Brauer as "showing a lack of respect for every American who doesn't share his brand of religion". She filed the suit three weeks after Lancaster voters supported a ballot vote to allow the prayers. In June 2011, Judge Dale S. Fischer of the U.S. Central District Court found against her and her co-plaintiff in a bench trial.

Rubin appealed the case.

Depictions Rubin is depicted in the documentary film Mother with a Gun, which won Best Australian Documentary at the 2016 Antenna Documentary Film Festival and was selected for the documentary film festival, DOC NYC.