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His father was a [[Satmar (Hasidic dynasty)|Satmar ''chasid'']], an [[Orthodox Judaism|Orthodox]] [[Rabbi]] with [[Semicha|''semicha '' (religious ordination)]] from Rabbi Teitelbaum.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishpress.com/pageroute.do/39823 |title=Morton Klein: Bibi Sent Wrong Message,Elliot Resnick, Jewish Press Staff Reporter |publisher=Jewishpress.com |date=2009-06-24 |accessdate=2010-08-12}}</ref> Mr. Klein said in a [[Jewish Press]] interview<ref>June 26, '09, p. 10</ref> regarding his father that "In Europe he had a long beard and black hat and was a [[Rosh yeshiva|''rosh yeshiva'']] in his early 20s. But he disagreed with the Satmars on Israel. My father loved Israel, so obviously this was transmitted to me." |
His father was a [[Satmar (Hasidic dynasty)|Satmar ''chasid'']], an [[Orthodox Judaism|Orthodox]] [[Rabbi]] with [[Semicha|''semicha '' (religious ordination)]] from Rabbi Teitelbaum.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishpress.com/pageroute.do/39823 |title=Morton Klein: Bibi Sent Wrong Message,Elliot Resnick, Jewish Press Staff Reporter |publisher=Jewishpress.com |date=2009-06-24 |accessdate=2010-08-12}}</ref> Mr. Klein said in a [[Jewish Press]] interview<ref>June 26, '09, p. 10</ref> regarding his father that "In Europe he had a long beard and black hat and was a [[Rosh yeshiva|''rosh yeshiva'']] in his early 20s. But he disagreed with the Satmars on Israel. My father loved Israel, so obviously this was transmitted to me." |
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Klein has [[Tourette syndrome]].<ref>[http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2011/jan/14/we-want-expose-truth-zoa-leader-morton-klein-ralli/?partner=RSS ‘We want to expose the truth’: ZOA leader Morton Klein rallies support for Israel in meeting at Beth Tikvah in Naples], Naples News, Feb. 14, 2011</ref> |
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Revision as of 18:23, 18 December 2014
Morton A. Klein | |
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| Born | Gunzberg, Germany |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | President of the Zionist Organization of America |
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Morton A. Klein is a German-born American economist, statistician, and Zionist activist. He is the president of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA).[1]
ZOA
In 1993, while serving as the organization’s Philadelphia chapter president, he was elected national president.[2]
The ZOA web site quotes the following from Klein's Encyclopaedia Judaica entry: "Klein revived a moribund Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) in the 1990s and made it one of the most out-spoken organizations on the American Jewish scene." [3]
It has been noted that he has steered the organization "to the right".[4][5]
Personal
He is a child of Holocaust survivors, born in a displaced persons camp in Gunzberg, Germany. He is an economist who served in the Nixon, Ford, and Carter Administrations. He has served as a biostatistician at UCLA School of Public Health and the Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine in Palo Alto, Calif. He has been a lecturer in mathematics and statistics at Temple University.[6]
Today, Klein is member of the International Board of Governors of the Ariel University Center of Samaria.[6]
His father was a Satmar chasid, an Orthodox Rabbi with semicha (religious ordination) from Rabbi Teitelbaum.[7] Mr. Klein said in a Jewish Press interview[8] regarding his father that "In Europe he had a long beard and black hat and was a rosh yeshiva in his early 20s. But he disagreed with the Satmars on Israel. My father loved Israel, so obviously this was transmitted to me."
Klein has Tourette syndrome.[9]
External links
References
- ^ http://www.zoa.org/sitedocuments/news_view.asp?newsID=834, which states in a footnote that "Its past presidents have included Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis."
- ^ Popper, Nathaniel (2006-04-14). "ZOA Pressed by Former Officials Over Guard's Pay – The Jewish Daily Forward". Forward.com. Retrieved 2010-08-12.
- ^ "4819-ZOA Report FL08.p5" (PDF). Retrieved 2010-08-12.
- ^ he said in an interview here [1] "We're not right wing. Everybody else is just very far left."
- ^ example: speech described here
- ^ a b "National President Morton A. Klein". ZOA.org. 2010-12-14. Retrieved 2010-12-14.
- ^ "Morton Klein: Bibi Sent Wrong Message,Elliot Resnick, Jewish Press Staff Reporter". Jewishpress.com. 2009-06-24. Retrieved 2010-08-12.
- ^ June 26, '09, p. 10
- ^ ‘We want to expose the truth’: ZOA leader Morton Klein rallies support for Israel in meeting at Beth Tikvah in Naples, Naples News, Feb. 14, 2011
- Living people
- American economists
- American people of German-Jewish descent
- American political activists
- American statisticians
- Ariel University
- Carter administration personnel
- Children of Holocaust survivors
- Ford Administration personnel
- German emigrants to the United States
- German Jews
- Jewish activists
- Nixon administration personnel
- People with Tourette syndrome
- Presidents of organizations
- University of California, Los Angeles faculty