Carl then recounts, "When I was 13 years old I had some close friends in a Zionist youth group called Betar. They wore uniforms and kept talking about a Jewish state on both sides of the Jordan. I didn't care about that. I just wanted to be with Shloime and Moishe."
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P.S. Okay, who was his madrich?
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Both Marty Marden and Seymore Rosenberg, z'l, knew Carl Reiner when he was in Betar in the Bronx ken. They often talked about him. I think he must have been older than 13, which would have been 1933 if he is now 86. I would guess that it was later in the 1930's.
Ray Kaplan
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Glad to hear that at least Mr. Reiner remembered what he learned in Betar, despite claiming total disinterest.
He has died, June 30, 2020
https://www.jta.org/2020/06/30/obituaries/carl-reiner-comedy-legend-and-consummate-old-jew-telling-jokes-dies-at-98?utm_source=JTA_Maropost&utm_campaign=JTA_DB&utm_medium=email&mpweb=1161-20856-25774
Now that you've all jarred my memory, I also heard this in Betar of the 1950s.
However much he subsequently might have been estranged from Betar ideologically, he turned out to be a Proud Jew
Last Post is from Sgan Natziv Aaron Bashani Braunstein, 1953-58.
There are other really world-famous former Betarim besides the obvious like Misha Arens, etc. I'm sure one of them is Abe Foxmzan.
Did Kissinger ever attend one Moadon meeting? Now that really would be a Betar urban legend.
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