Word: leib
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When his grandfather, Rabbi Mendel Leib Levine, came to the U.S. from Russia, he took over Herman's religious training. Rabbi Levine, now an alert 90-year-old living in Tel Aviv, is one of the two men who, Wouk believes, have most influenced his life (the other: Columbia's late Philosopher Irwin Edman). "For 23 years," recalls Wouk, "my grandfather never ate any meat except fowl, because he insisted on personally seeing the slaughtering done according to the prescribed ritual...
Said outgoing N.C.A.A. President Karl Leib: "I predict we will have chaos in college athletics." If any college wanted to play Sanity Code football there was nothing to stop them - but nobody could make them...