Mayor Ed Koch - Good Guy Or Bad Guy? Oorah - Rabbi Mintz Live 2/5/13

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and here's where we want to discuss our topic that we I chose tonight to talk about our former mayor everybody's familiar with him edat died and he was buried this week and was certainly in the news very much he was Jewish man and he's got such Praises from people eulogized him people Praises from people eulogized him people interviewed all the Mayors former mayors spoke so highly of him and how do we look at a person like that from a real Jewish Viewpoint he a good guy or a bad guy well let's analyze it he was to people he was a civil people he was a civil servant mayor of one of the biggest cities in the in the world many terms and he was a Jew the part of him that was a civil servant was very outstanding according to everybody who is in politics they all fil field that he put the city on its feet was almost he put the city on its feet was almost by collapse when he took over and he with his courage and his great powers of speech and actions he he saved New York City very smart man very witty man good sense of humor and very good and very good politician and he did many good things for the city that's the one side of him as a civil servant and the mayor of the great city of New York but the side of him being Jewish was miserable terrible and the person of his stature and of his greatness so to speak his lack of being Jewish is much worse than a simple person well people don't look up to that person for anything special but for this person who's outstanding standing who's known internationally people look up to him to see what he does and they learn from

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