A Suffolk Superior Court judge has ordered the Boston Redevelopment Authority to turn over additional documents to a Jewish advocacy group that is suing the agency for internal records about a land deal for a mosque in Roxbury.

On Monday, Judge Allan van Gestel rejected the agency's arguments that a public records lawsuit brought by The David Project be thrown out and ruled that the BRA had to produce records related to the sale of land to the Islamic Society of Boston.

The BRA has already provided The David Project several hundred pages of documents about the sale, some of which showed an agency employee involved with the deal was also raising money for the Islamic Society in Abu Dhabi and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates in 2000. They also showed the agency had valued the land at more than $2 million in March 2000 and later sold it to the Islamic Society for $175,000.

The judge's order on Monday compels the agency to turn over additional records. BRA spokeswoman Susan Elsbree said the agency had not given the David Project the additional documents because the agency was waiting for the judge's ruling. She also expressed fear that The David Project would stir up negative media attention about the documents' contents.

"Every time they breathe, they make a press release out of nothing," Elsbree said in an interview yesterday. "We think this is a good project."...