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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.