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and fondly recalls summering each
year in Israel as a child — includ-
ing just after the 1967 Six-Day War.
He attends Anshe Sholom, a Modern
Orthodox synagogue in Chicago,
and sends his children to Jewish day
school.
His rabbi, Asher Lopatin, recalls
Emanuel approaching him just before
Rosh Hashanah this year, telling him
that an effort to put together a bailout
package for the hard-hit stock mar-
ket before the holiday had failed and
asking whether it was permissible to
take conference calls on the holiday in
order to salvage the bill.
"I asked, 'Is it as serious as people
say it is?'" the rabbi recalled. "He said,
`Without this bill there could be a
meltdown of the financial system.'"
Lopatin considered the effect such
a failure would have on children and
the poor. "I felt it was a case of pikuach
nefesh," the commandment that places
the saving of life above all other com-
mandments, Lopatin said, and gave
Emanuel the OK.

The somberness of the request
couldn't quell Emanuel's acerbic wit.
Lopatin recalled Emanuel's teasing,
wondering whether the status of the
rabbi's 401(k) investments wasn't also
behind the hechsher.
"He kibitzed with me about that:'
the rabbi said.
Emanuel repeated the story, to
raucous laughter, in caucus meetings
on the Hill — an example of how he
will skid in the same sentence from
Judaism to a liberal commitment to
social reforms to hard-nosed politics,
Schakowsky said.
"There's barely a caucus meeting
where he doesn't make some reference
to being Jewish, often in a humorous
way," she said.
But his Jewishness does more than
inform his sense of humor, Emanuel's
rabbi said.
"He has a very deep commitment
and feel for Yiddishkeit," Lopatin said,
"and it's a Yiddishkeit that's about tik-
kun olam, having a positive effect on
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Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y.; Jared Polis,
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