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Legendary CBS Anchor Walter Cronkite Dies At 92
Walter Cronkite, the premier TV anchorman of the networks' golden age who reported a tumultuous time with reassuring authority and came to be called "the most trusted man in America," died Friday. He was 92.
Cronkite's longtime chief of staff, Marlene Adler, said Cronkite died at 7:42 p.m. at his Manhattan home surrounded by family. She said the cause of death was cerebral vascular disease.
Adler said, "I have to go now" before breaking down into what sounded like a sob. She said she had no further comment.
Cronkite was the face of the "CBS Evening News" from 1962 to 1981, when stories ranged from the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to racial and anti-war riots, Watergate and the Iranian hostage crisis.
It was Cronkite who read the bulletins coming from Dallas when Kennedy was shot Nov. 22, 1963, interrupting a live CBS-TV broadcast of the soap opera "As the World Turns."
Cronkite was the broadcaster to whom the title "anchorman" was first applied, and he came so identified in that role that eventually his own name became the term for the job in other languages (Swedish anchors are known as Kronkiters; in Holland, they are Cronkiters).
"He was a great broadcaster and a gent
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Walter Cronkite and Authentic Judaism
It surprises even me to see Walter Cronkite’s name and the words “authentic Judaism” in the same title, but you can thank Beliefnet’s Steven Waldman for that. He has a piece up about the newly deceased Cronkite and Sandra Nemser, who it turns out, is Steven’s mom. In the post, we learn that Cronkite was a witness at Waldman-Nemser wedding, and also about a little “game” the family used to play, a game in which we discover that Waldman and those he mocks are quite similar:
“We thought: what a fun test case we would make! Let’s take my parent’s Jewish wedding certificate to Israel and dare them to declare that it was invalid because the witness wasn’t Jewish — just go ahead and say that the Most Trusted Man in America wasn’t good enough for this marriage!”
Now I am no fan of the Israeli Chief Rabbinate. In fact, they have done more to damage the credibility of traditional Judaism than virtually any institution in the modern State of Israel. No matter how well intentioned they may be, and no matter that in specific matters of Jewish law I may agree with their rulings, state-sponsored and state-enforced religion is a toxic mess that mixes faith and coercio
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