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Rabbi Arnold Jacob Wolf...

Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights

In 1965 Arnold Wolf was a Vice-Chairmen of Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights^[1]

Death

Long-time Democratic Socialists of America member^[2]and supporter Rabbi Arnold Wolf died unexpectedly on Tuesday, December 23 2008 He was 84 years old.

Obama friend, neighbor and supporter

Rabbi Wolf is a member of Rabbis for Obama, he has held Obama fundraisers in his home is was a big fan of the then Senator from Illinois.

Wolf came to Hyde Park before urban renewal. For 25 years he led the congregation at KAM Isaiah Israel, a synagogue across the street from Obama's mansion^[3].

"Barack is perfect for the neighborhood!...You can't say Barack's a product of Hyde Park. He's not really from here. But everybody saw the potential early on. We had a party for him at our house when he was just starting, back in the Nineties. I said right away: 'Here's a guy who could sell our product, and sell it with splendor!' "

On "the product Obama could sell?^[4]

"The thing is, it's not what you might think...It's not radical. It's not extreme. It's a rational, progressive philosophy based on experience. You see it here. This neighborhood is genuinely integrated. We did it here, we really did it! Not just talk about it. Look around. And Barack and his family fit right in. This is their neighborhood."

Knowing Ayers and Dohrn

Rabbi Wolf dismisses Hyde Park's radical reputation and defends two of its most well known citizens-Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn^[5];

"People think we're radicals here, wild-eyed!...Bill Ayers--I know Bill Ayers very well. Bill Ayers is an aging, toothless radical. A pussycat. And his wife, too. I sat on a commission with his wife a few years ago. My god, she was more critical of the left than I was! The two of them, they're utterly conventional people. They had a violent streak at one time. But now--they're thoroughly conventional, just very nice, well-educated people from the neighborhood."

References

↑ Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights Letterhead Feb 1965
↑ http://www.chicagodsa.org/ngarchive/ng121.html
↑ http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/197wxqsf.asp?pg=2
↑ http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/197wxqsf.asp?pg=2
↑ http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/197wxqsf.asp?pg=2

[1] Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights Letterhead Feb 1965

[2] ttp://www.chicagodsa.org/ngarchive/ng121.html

[3] ttp://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/197wxqsf.asp?pg=2

[4] ttp://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/197wxqsf.asp?pg=2

[5] ttp://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/197wxqsf.asp?pg=2

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 Long-time [[Democratic Socialists of America]]  member<ref>http://www.chicagodsa.org/ngarchive/ng121.html</ref>and supporter Rabbi Arnold Wolf died unexpectedly on Tuesday, December 23 2008 He was 84 years old.
-==Obama friend, neighbor and supporter=
+==Obama friend, neighbor and supporter==
 Rabbi Wolf is a member of Rabbis for Obama, he has held Obama fundraisers in his home is was a big fan of the then Senator from Illinois.
-Wolf  came to Hyde Park before urban renewal.  For 25 years he led the congregation at [[KAM Isaiah Israel]], a synagogue across the street from Obama's mansion.
+Wolf  came to Hyde Park before urban renewal.  For 25 years he led the congregation at [[KAM Isaiah Israel]], a synagogue across the street from Obama's mansion<ref>http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/197wxqsf.asp?pg=2</ref>.
 :''"Barack is perfect for the neighborhood!...You can't say Barack's a product of Hyde Park. He's not really from here. But everybody saw the potential early on. We had a party for him at our house when he was just starting, back in the Nineties. I said right away: 'Here's a guy who could sell our product, and sell it with splendor!''' "
-On "the produc"t Obama could sell?
+On "the product Obama could sell?<ref>http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/197wxqsf.asp?pg=2</ref>
 ''"The thing is, it's not what you might think...It's not radical. It's not extreme. It's a rational, progressive philosophy based on experience. You see it here. This neighborhood is genuinely integrated. We did it here, we really did it! Not just talk about it. Look around. And Barack and his family fit right in. This is their neighborhood.''"
-==Knowing ayers and Dohrn==
+==Knowing Ayers and Dohrn==
-Rabbi Wolf dismisses  Hyde Park's radical reputation and defends two of its most well known citizens-[[Bill Ayers]] and [[Bernardine Dohrn]];
+Rabbi Wolf dismisses  Hyde Park's radical reputation and defends two of its most well known citizens-[[Bill Ayers]] and [[Bernardine Dohrn]]<ref>http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/197wxqsf.asp?pg=2</ref>;
 :''"People think we're radicals here, wild-eyed!...Bill Ayers--I know Bill Ayers very well. Bill Ayers is an aging, toothless radical. A pussycat. And his wife, too. I sat on a commission with his wife a few years ago. My god, she was more critical of the left than I was! The two of them, they're utterly conventional people. They had a violent streak at one time. But now--they're thoroughly conventional, just very nice, well-educated people from the neighborhood."''
-As he walked me to the door he mused about the urban renewal that created the new Hyde Park. He said he'd always been ambivalent about it.
-"Even at the time, you could see the university was saving us, and it was destroying us," he said. "It was keeping us afloat, but it was also taking away the old characteristics, the old buildings, the old trees, the old roots. But it made the neighborhood different, unique. You notice there's no class conflict here."
-He twinkled.
-"That's because there's only one class--upper!"
-The irony would be funny if it weren't so jarring: Black America, after 400 years of enforced second-class status, offers the country a plausible presidential candidate, and what's the charge made against him? He's an elitist.
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