Police arrest son of prominent DC-area rabbi after alleged altercation with protesters outside Israeli Embassy

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Police arrested the son of a prominent Washington D.C.-area rabbi after he allegedly got into an altercation with protesters outside the Israeli Embassy.

Two witnesses quoted in a Secret Service police arrest sheet accused Ezra Weinblatt, a real estate agent and the son of Rabbi Stuart Weinblatt, who leads Congregation B’nai Tzedek in Potomac, Maryland, of pushing them on April 16 at around noon and breaking their sound equipment.

Weinblatt told Secret Service police “what they [the protesters] were doing is illegal and annoying,” according to…