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The Naked Rabbi: Driving Mrs. Roosevelt

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Mar 8, 2012
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To celebrate Purim and International Women's Day, we give you the latest instsallment from one of our favorite storytellers — Rabbi Allen Secher (aka The Naked Rabbi) — and his tale of chauffeuring former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt for five days in 1955 when he was a student at Brandeis University.

Mrs. Roosevelt was no Miss Daisy.

Driving Mrs. Roosevelt, Part One

 

Driving Mrs. Roosevelt, Part Two

 

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