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Specter Now A Dem
Pennsylvania changed their regis-
Washington/JTA — Arlen Specter, tration to become Democrats:'
the only Jewish Republican
Specter said his change in
in the U.S. Senate, is becom-
party affiliation "does not mean
ing a Democrat. The long-
that I will be a party-line voter
time Pennsylvania lawmaker
any more for the Democrats
announced Tuesday that
than I have been for the
he switched his party
Republicans" and that he
affiliation and will run for
will "not be an automatic
re-election in 2010 in the
60th vote for cloture."
Democratic primary.
The moderate Specter
His party switch would
also acknowledged that
give Democrats a 60-vote
he was unlikely to win
filibuster-proof majority
a Republican primary
if Al Franken eventually
fight next year with con-
Sen. S pecter
prevails in Minnesota
servative former Rep. Pat
over Republican Norm
Toomey. As a Democrat,
Coleman.
his chances against Toomey in a
Specter, 79, said he was mak-
general election would improve.
ing the change because his
Specter said his vote for the
political philosophy is now "more
stimulus package earlier this
in line with Democrats than
year had created a schism with
Republicans."
Republicans that appeared irrec-
"Since my election in 1980,
onciliable.
as part of the Reagan Big Tent,
Specter's switch, assuming
the Republican Party has moved
Franken wins, means Rep. Eric
far to the right," he said in a
Cantor of Virginia would be the
statement. "Last year, more
only Jewish Republican in the U.S.
than 200,000 Republicans in
Congress.
Bill Davidson with son Ethan and
grandson Asher, now 8 months
The Measure Of A Man
At William Davidson's funeral in mid-
March at Congregation Shaarey Zedek in
Southfield, Ethan Davidson, his son, gave
a moving eulogy about his father that
provided a glimpse of this preeminent
philanthropist and businessman.
Because people have expressed inter-
ested in his words, Ethan shared the
eulogy with the Jewish News as well as a
family photo showing three generations
of the family.
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An excerpt from Ethan's eulogy:
"The great Chinese philosopher
Confucius speaks of 'filial piety': If you
first cultivate justice in your home, justice
will be cultivated in the world. My father
never sought public approval; his aim
was never self-glorification. He didn't set
out to be so fantastically successful in his
professional life so that others might idol-
ize him. He was a great man only in one
thing: He cultivated justice in his home. It
was these, his hearthside gifts, his disci-
pline and dedication to this one humble
ideal which caused his star to shine a
little brighter, his presence to be felt
with a little more sublimnity, his words
to carry more meaning and his public
accomplishments to be called great.
"His first thought was never to his
business, his fame, nor his largess; it was
the cultivation of domestic justice: His
eye was always on his family. He only
achieved his much paler public success
because of his gifts as a father, a husband,
a grandfather, a son and a brother. With
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his family, he was tolerant, but never
indulgent; firm but never authoritarian;
he offered direction without fetters; lati-
tude without anarchy; generosity without
prodigality: this is domestic justice, this
and this alone is the meaning of the
Torah and the Prophets and the Wisdom.
This was my dad's gift, and this was the
sum total of his accomplishments; this
and this only was the meaning and aim
of his life, this was the trajectory which
set him apart as a great man. In compari-
son to all of this, his public success was
mere commentary.
"If each of us gathered here today
could take but one ounce of what it was
that made this man, if we could take
but one hair, one thread of his life and
use that to cultivate justice in our own
homes, my friends, could you imagine
the profound effect we could have on
this world?
"He was a man, take him for all in all."
— Keri Guten Cohen, story development editor
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