I’m pretending to be in the US.
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Hm, that’s where I am and it didn’t like that. I tried Canada and nothing changed… the UK maybe?
EDIT: The UK worked! Hurrah for the Brits! Now to sit down and listen to some well deserved Billy Thorpe with a interesting accompanying music video. Thanks for the share @ChuckV!
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Hmmm… well, sometimes my VPN thinks I’m in the US, but occasionally it defaults to Hong Kong.
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Religion and Social Activism~
“The Call” and…
Rabbi Emil Gustav Hirsch, Chicago, Illinois (1851or1852-1923), influential signatory of “The Call”-- a trailblazing, controversial, criticized and influential religious leader who helped uplift and make America better.
Rabbi Hirsch was a very influential religious leader; and having him as a supporter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), was critical for the recognition, acceptance and credibility of the NAACP, in the formative years of the new civil rights organization.
After the initial meeting in New York in the first week of January 1909 where the NAACP was born, Mary White Ovington, William English Walling, and Henry Moskowitz decided to try and find someone with influence within the journalist community to draft a letter calling on concerned and like minded citizens to join the new organization they were forming.
They considered and contacted several individuals one of whom was Oswald Garrison Villard, president of the New York Post. Villard was very receptive to the suggestions and ideas of Ovington, Walling, and Moskowitz and agreed to help them.
Oswald Garrison Villard would not only go on to become one of the most influential and important founding members of the NAACP, he would agree to be the one to draft, write and provide extensive publicity for the all important Lincoln Birthday Call.” The Lincoln Birthday Call was issued on February 12, 1909 to coincide with the February 12, 1809 birthday of President Abraham Lincoln and would become known simply as "The Call.”
“The Call” was a solicitation letter written to elicit support and hands on participation in the new African-American political, civic, and social organization. “The Call" was signed by fifty-five (55) influential political, civic and social activists. Many of them could be described as liberals and progressives on steroids.
The professions of the signatories of “The Call” ranged from newspaper owners, writers, journalist, publishers, editors, editors in chief, to feminist, suffragettes, settlement founders, social workers, religious leaders and civil rights activists, to college and grade school educators, to politicians, public servants, and social and labor reformers.
One of the 55 was Rabbi Emil Gustav Hirsch~
Rabbi Emil Gustav Hirsch was an author, editor, professor, social activist and world-renowned American rabbi. The son of a rabbi, he was an influential exponent of advanced thought and Reform Judaism. He advocated for social justice for all in America and also advocated for justice for Russian Jews in Russia.
Rabbi Hirsch was considered by some to be a radical rabbi because he advocated for radical reforms in Jewish practice, which included observing the Sabbath Day on a Sunday. He received a Ph.D. from Leipzig University in Saxony, Germany. Rabbi Hirsch was rabbi of Chicago Sinai Congregation from 1880 to 1923. An iconic and gifted speaker, he was considered the master preacher of the Synagogue of the twentieth century.
Rabbi Hirsch became one of the highest paid clergyman in America and his congregation at its peak totaled over six-thousand members. He was the founding director of the Jewish Manuel Training School and founding editor of the Jewish weekly Reform Advocate. Rabbi Hirsch was the first Professor of Rabbinic Literature and Philosophy at the University of Chicago and was Bible editor of the Jewish Encyclopedia. He was also president of the Chicago Public Library Board. Rabbi Hirsch authored several religious monograms and received a horary degree from Hebrew Union College.
When Rabbi Emil Gustav Hirsch died over eight-thousand mourners attended the funeral rites for this gifted rabbi. President Warren G. Harding acknowledged rabbi Hirschs death by sending the following telegram to Mrs. Hirsch.
I have been much distressed to learn of the death of your distinguished husband and hasten to extend my sincere condolences to you, together with the expression of my deep sense of the countrys great loss.
This is interesting and all, but what does it mean to you that you wanted to share?
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Cheers!
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SERIOUSLY, WHAT IS YOUR POINT?
WHY ARE YOU POSTING THIS STUFF?
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To not look like a bot in the only other thread it posts in? shrug
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What if we were all bots except @khepra, and that’s why it’s so confusing?
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Any ol’ bot can post blocks of copypasta. A human being might actually be able to plausibly state their purpose in doing so.
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Why? No, seriously…why? What did that bring to the conversation?
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As a Chicagoan you’ll appreciate the connection Emil Hirsch->Julius Rosenwald->Henry Goldman and Paul Sachs->Hillary Clinton, but then it should be in the other thread.
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You mean our favorite maybe-bot actually made a connection between the only two threads they post in? Now I am confused!
(In Chicago, FWIW, Rosenwald is the much bigger name.)
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Sure, because of Sears and because of the schools and buildings he financed. (I’ve been to parties at a park carved out of his former estate.) But Hirsch was the one who turned him into a philanthropist.
Not sure he did it single-handedly – it was a time of great philanthropy in the city, by many wealthy people of various religious heritages – but I’m happy to give him his due for his general influence on Rosenwald.
I wonder who the equivalent game-changers will be for our generation. Not the most famous now, but whose contributions now will still mean something in 100 years? It’s not always the ones you think it will be.
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Game-changing is not always a good thing!
