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How one man’s burial brought Jews and Christians together — and what it still teaches 120 years later

JL;DR SUMMARY The funeral of Harris Cohn in 1915 at the Beth Joseph Synagogue in Tupper Lake, New York, serves as a poignant example of interfaith unity between Jews and Christians. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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American Jewish LifeCommunityFuneralReligious UnityInterfaithHarris CohnTupper LakeBeth Joseph SynagogueJewish Christian RelationsRural Synagogues

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Tupper Lake, New York, United States
"The man they gathered to honor was Harris Cohn, an early Jewish resident of Tupper Lake, New York."
Ogdensburg, New York, United States
"I had been tracing the histories of small-town synagogues some now closed, others still standing in places like New Yorks North Country and across the Midwest."
Massena, New York, United States
"I had been tracing the histories of small-town synagogues some now closed, others still standing in places like New Yorks North Country and across the Midwest."

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