one of the March, 2019 Olan sermons discussion classes at Temple Emanu-El, Dallas. This lunch-and-learn group met under the leadership of Dr. Morton Prager from 2013 to 2018. In the spring of 2019 SMU Bridwell …
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Tim Binkley leading
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Rabbi Olan and Joshua Hirsch, circa 1981-1983.
Grandson Joshua Hirsch shares these special memories: [I] remember the time I was interested in Marxism in college and I asked him what his opinion of it was, and he said he could believe in …
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Anthony Elia leading an Olan Sermons discussion
Anthony Elia, Director of Bridwell Library at Perkins School of Theology, SMU, served as discussion leader at Temple Emanu-El on March 26, 2019. He will also lead the April 2 discussion on Rabbi Olan’s sermon, …
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1963 photograph of Rabbi Olan with Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., with, from left to right, H. Rhett James, Rabbi Levi Olan, and J. A. Stanfield, on a visit in Dallas for Dallas County United Poll Tax Rally at the Fair …
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Levi Olan with his sister, Bertha, in 1925
Photograph of Levi Olan with his sister in August of 1925. Bertha Olan (1908-1985) married Jack Cravets. They lived in Rochester, New York, where Bertha served as the librarian at Temple B’rith Kodesh. Image courtesy …
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Levi Olan and his sister, Bertha, in 1942
Image courtesy of Bonnie C. Yankaskas.
Rabbi Levi A. Olan: The Conscience of the City 