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“If you want to know about my brother, Jack Ruby, you should talk to Hillel Silverman. He was our rabbi in Dallas for ten years before President Kennedy’s assassination, and he knew Jack very well.”  It was 1976, and I had convinced Eva Rubenstein Grant — a loud woman with an even louder red wig — to appear on an ABC program to speak about her brother, who fatally shot John F. Kennedy’s alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald on live television thirteen years earlier. 

(JTA) — “If you want to know about my brother, Jack Ruby, you should talk to Hillel Silverman. He was our rabbi in Dallas for ten years before President Kennedy’s

Jack Ruby, a nightclub owner with links to the Mafia, was one of Silverman's congregants.

Silverman was spiritual leader of Shearith Israel from 1954 to 1964; Jack Ruby, a nightclub owner with links to the Mafia who shot Lee Harvey Oswald, was one of his congregants

A journalist recalls the career and brush with notoriety of Silverman, the founding rabbi of a Dallas congregation.

From the blog of Ronnie Katz Gerber at The Times of Israel

Harriet Rossetto and Mark Borovitz find happiness in Barry Rosenthal's 'The Jewish Jail Lady and the Holy Thief.'

After a stroke in May, Lt. Gov. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, the state’s Democratic Senate nominee, is slowly re-emerging in public. His first interview since then was with a Pittsburgh paper.

As a community, we can afford to lift our gaze above the basic goals of survival and continuity. We ought to find ways to fulfill our potential and rise beyond the self through altruism and spirituality.

Life is about to change for the congregants at Valley Beth Shalom, one of the largest Conservative synagogues in the United States, when the new senior rabbi, Nolan Lebovitz, takes over in July.