Remembering a Man of Courage and Grace

From: Jewish Exponent | Date: April 6, 2000| Author: Mono, Brian | Copyright information


Jewish Exponent

04-06-2000

Remembering a Man of Courage and Grace

Brian Mono

Jewish Exponent Staff

As Philadelphia's Soviet Jewry activists awoke at dawn on July 22, 1977, in
the midst of a 24-hour vigil at Independence Hall for jailed refusenik
Anatoly Sharansky, they saw an apparition that looked like an angel with
wings.

Upon closer inspection, they could see that it was Congregation Adath
Jeshurun's Rabbi Yaakov G....

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