Tikvah
Editors’ Pick

July 21, 2015

Baruch Korff, Richard Nixon’s Rabbi

Loyal to the bitter end.

Born in what is now Ukraine, Rabbi Baruch Korff, who died twenty years ago, spent most of his life in America. During World War II, he served as the director of the Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People, an organization dedicated to rescuing Jews from Nazi-controlled Europe. He also became a confidant of President Nixon, whom he defended to the bitter end. Robert Philpot writes:

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