WASHINGTON (JTA) -- Nathan Diament learned two things 22 years ago while watching Barack Obama play pickup basketball at the Harvard Law School gym.
“He was a generous passer,” he said of the school’s Law Review editor and the future U.S. president. “He was competitive, but at an appropriate level of competitiveness. He didn’t get in your face.”
It’s an acquaintance that continues to serve Diament to this day on his mission of representing a minority within a minority -- he has headed the Orthodox Union’s Washington office since it opened in 1998.
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