THE OBSERVER
Cory Booker Scrubs Mentor Shmuley From His Memoir
by Paul Miller
February 16, 2016

At a time of historic political and social divide in our nation, New Jersey Senator Cory Booker is putting himself out there as a unifying voice. Today, the Garden State Democrat released his first book, United, recounting personal stories of his “political and personal awakening.”… United traces Mr. Booker’s journey from taking up residence in a violence-ravaged neighborhood in Newark (Brick Towers) with the goal of uplifting the community, to key moments in his political career…With more than six pages acknowledging people to whom the senator is “indebted,” Rabbi Shmuley Boteach stands out as a glaring omission. He’s entirely unmentioned in the book. The well-known rabbi (who writes frequently for the Observer) is known to have enjoyed an unusually close friendship with the senator for more than 20 years, since they met at Oxford University, where Mr. Booker was a Rhodes Scholar and Mr. Boteach headed the prestigious school’s L’chaim Society. READ MORE