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Later version of "Chutzpah" (c. 2009)

"We are getting to the last years in my narration of my 'working life.'"

"I cannot describe the joy I feel in seeing so many young people in the Boston area committed to the Jewish Labor Committee, and to its role as a bridge between the labor movement and the Jewish community."

"What follows describes my nine-year 'Herculean' struggle with my draft board to avoid the draft."

"I recently read an excellent piece by Elaine Bernard of Harvard’s Labor and Worklife Program in the Fall 2008 issue of DSA’s Democratic Left."

"In the summer of 1956, I called Manny Muravchik to ask to meet with him. I had been told that he knew just about everybody in the labor movement. "

"In the fall of 1965, I went to work for the US Commission on Civil Rights as a Field Representative in Washington, DC. "

"A couple of weeks ago, I was browsing the bookshelves of the Brookline Public Library and came across a book called 'Comrades and Commissars: The Lincoln Battalion in the Spanish Civil War.'"

"After 2 1/2 years (from September 1951 to January 1954) working full time as an organizer for Local 38 of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU), and going full time to NYU, ostensibly working toward a PhD in Economics, and having…

"As I put together 'my story' it occurred to me that it is like the resumes we prepared when looking for a job..."