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to meet Rabbi Adler, when he
spoke in 1965 at the Jewish
Theological Seminary in New York.
A s a child, Helen Telushkin
"'We don't consider ourselves
lived in the same New York
related," says Feldman of her
apartment building as her cousins,
rabbi friend, just that we share
the Adlers.
[family] relations."
In adulthood, her first cousin
Feldman says Rabbi Tdushkin
Morris became Rabbi Morris Adler,
told her that, based on his mother's
leader of
stories and Rabbi
Congregation Shaarey Ra
A dler' s publications,
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Zedek from 1938 to
"had the rabbi been
1966. Helen's son
alive today, they
became Rabbi Joseph
would have definitely
Telushkin.
been close."
The families once
Rabbi Adler was
were practically
murdered in his
inseparable, "so
Southfield synagogue
close, they saw each
on March 11, 1966.
other every day,"
His wife, Goldie,
sharing meals and
died eight years ago.
spending every
This week,
Shabbat together,
Feldman spoke for
according to Marcy
the first time with
Feldman of
Helen Telushkin,
Huntington Woods,
sharing memories of
a friend of Rabbi
Rabbi Adler. Feldman
Telushkin.
then contacted her
Feldman met
cousin Judy Berstein,
Telushkin at a
Rabbi Morris and Goldie
Rabbi Adler's grand-
Wexner Heritage
Adler (fan. 4, 1964)
daughter who lives in
Foundation work-
New York City, so
shop he conducted in
that she, too could
1986. She later discovered each of
speak with Mrs. Telushkin "and lis-
them is related to the Adler family.
ten to her wonderful memories of
Shortly after learning of their
her grandfather as a kid."
common bond, Rabbi Telushkin
But with or 'without the recent
visited the Detroit area. Feldman
conversations, the Adler and
brought him to the home of Rabbi
Telushkin families remain connect-
Adler's widow, Goldie, for a first-
ecl, with Rabbi Joseph
time visit. As a teen, Rabbi
named
Telushldn's mother once took him
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odder for conflict or tragic flaws. But
bbi Telushkin, she says, "got it right
away"
Williamson was also impressed with
elushkin, the man. "He obviously
plows Torah because he applies it with
luch great compassion. And as a shiksa
non-Jewish female] from Denver, sit-
ng there talking to him [discussing the
how], I felt practically knowledgeable
because he made me feel that way."
For his part, Rabbi Telushkin is
, leasantly thrilled that he gets to rub
houlders with Hollywood producers
d present his message on television.
"I feel I've been very blessed in life,
ecause I've been able to do it while try-
ing to still communicate the things that
have mattered to me," he says. "I have
found the world to be a friendlier place
for me as a person and as a committed
Jew than I would have thought it would
be, growing up in the years after the
Holocaust."
And then, struck by the absurdity of
being a rabbi with an agent, he giggles.
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He wouldn't have laughed, though, at
producer Williamson's description of
herself as a "shiksa." The word, he
pointed out at one of the Savannah
sessions, is not only disparaging but
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