A Jewish family loaned little Louis the money to buy his first cornet.
If we are honest about our American Heritage, we can only gratefully acknowledge those behind-the-scenes Jews who contributed to American culture. Five dollars was a goodly amount in those days (when one could later go to the theater for five cents). Louis Armstrong’s highly positive attitude to American Jewish people was personalized. Millions of today’s Americans – black or white, Christian or secular, musical or non-musical – see the cultural bonds which are inescapable. Today, hundreds of Corrie Ten Booms and Raoul Wallenbergs – celebrated in Yad Vashem – need to step up to the plate and see the American Jewish demographic is protected and arrives safely in Israel, as prophesied.
Pope Benedict XVI gave a Papal Blessing to my writings in November 2008. As a Catholic Press Association member of 500 worldwide, I am the author of numerous books and articles, including a several-book series for a Catholic college of the arts. My great uncle, Cardinal Volk of Hamburg, cast the deciding conclave vote for Pope John Paul I. As a positive conservative activist of the 1960s, an activism which recently surfaced in my retirement, I was on the ground floor of Ralph Martin's Catholic Charismatic Movement. A former research correspondent of Malachi Martin, I was invited to his New York residence in the early 1990s, to soon receive a handwritten note from him in a hospital recovery room telling of a recent heart attack. Over the decades, I've gained much firsthand experience with separated-brethren Protestants, Pentecostals and Messianic Jews - especially those who, though fragmented, all refuse the Masonic-crafted syncretistic world religious body needed for draconian world government.
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