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Rabbi Levi A. Olan: The Conscience of the City

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  • The Harm That Good Men Do

    Posted by conscienceofthecity on July 16, 2018March 27, 2019

    "Censorship is the death of all art. When an artist must exclude a true experience of life to suit the fears of men, he ceases to be creative." Although broadcast on November 12, 2961, Rabbi Olan's brief study of censorship and its repercussions on a free society might easily have been written today. He is careful to note that...

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  • Life that is Stronger than Death

    Posted by conscienceofthecity on July 9, 2018March 27, 2019

    “Death is the greatest teacher of life.” Why is it that people suddenly become more real at a wake, a funeral, or a memorial service? The losses of loved ones (and of great leaders) remind …

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  • Faith at its best

    “Faith at its best places all of human experience in a frame of adventure in which all our trials and our tribulations, all of our pain and suffering are part of something greater than ourselves. To ask of life that it be free of trouble and anxiety is to be a child. Maturity teaches us that the essence of our natures is freedom, at times a terrible freedom.”

    Rabbi Levi A. Olan. From “What Do You Want – Freedom or Security?” (December 17, 1961)

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  • A National Purpose for America

    Posted by conscienceofthecity on July 1, 2018March 27, 2019

    “It is time, now, that we asked ourselves what has become of the American dream?” On October 29, 1961, Rabbi Olan urged Americans to remember the values and costly sacrifices of our nation’s founders and …

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  • Levi A. Olan papers

    Posted by conscienceofthecity on June 29, 2018June 26, 2018

    The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati, Ohio, is the official repository of Rabbi Olan’s papers. A description of the collection may be accessed through this link.

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  • Levi Olan at his bar mitzvah, 1916

    Posted by conscienceofthecity on June 26, 2018

    Image courtesy of Bonnie C. Yankaskas.

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  • We and the War That Need Not Be

    Posted by conscienceofthecity on June 24, 2018March 27, 2019

    “There is no escape from the grim reality of the possibility of a nuclear war which would really end all wars and all life.” World tensions were indeed high on October 22, 1961, when this …

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  • Read, Listen, or Watch

    Posted by conscienceofthecity on June 17, 2018June 17, 2018

    The Bridwell Library database of Olan sermons includes 211 audio recordings. The picture above shows boxes of original sermon tapes in the archives. The tapes were digitized in 2012 by the Norwick Center for Digital …

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  • We Are All Guilty

    Posted by conscienceofthecity on June 17, 2018March 27, 2019

    “What punishment is there for someone who is responsible for the murder of six million lives?” Rabbi Olan’s October 15, 1961 radio sermon drew on public interest in the prosecution of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann …

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  • Young Levi Olan, circa 1908

    Posted by conscienceofthecity on June 14, 2018June 14, 2018

    Note the teddy bear in his pocket! Image courtesy of Bonnie C. Yankaskas.

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