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Artur Hertzberg, rabbi, thinker and iconoclast, is dead at age 84
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Jewish Telegraphic Agency
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April 19, 2006
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- Tigay, Chanan
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Tigay, Chanan
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
04-19-2006
NEW YORK, April 18 (JTA) -- Years ago, David Twersky asked his secretary to
give Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg a call. "She asked, Can you hold for David
Twersky?" recalls Twersky, now the director of international affairs for
the American Jewish Congress. When he picked up the receiver, however, he
found that Hertzberg had hung up.
When Twersky called back, Hertzberg told him, "The only person I hold for
is the president of the United States."
Hertzberg, who died Monday at age 84 of heart failure, wasn't making it
up: Presidents, indeed, called to pick his brain. The anecdote is telling:
Hertzberg was a man of enormous influence -- and he knew it.
His ...
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