In September, 1993, the Oxford University L’Chaim Society, which I founded, was advancing. The organization we had started just a few years earlier had rapidly grown to be the second largest student society in Oxford’s history. Our Presidents were Cory Booker, later to be a United States Senator, and Toba Friedman, the first Orthodox Jewish woman to win a Marshall scholarship. Our student leaders included Rhodes Scholars like Noah Feldman, later to be a Harvard law professor academic superstar and Michael Benson, grandson of the President of the Mormon Church and today the President of Eastern Kentucky University. Our speakers included Nobel Peace Prize winners like Mikhail Gorbachev and my hero Elie Wiesel.
But I faced a problem.
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