Abe Pollin, a mentsch to emulate
I was really touched by Maureen Dowd’s eulogy column about Abe Pollin.
He follows the tradition of frugal leaders like David Ben-Gurion, and characters from Isaac Bashevis-Singer’s shtetl stories, whose Judaism was about helping those in need.
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