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Moses S. Margolies: what Wikipedia removed

Moses S. Margolies was an Orthodox rabbi in Manhattan who in 1933 addressed 20,000 people at Madison Square Garden as part of the Anti-Nazi Boycott. Through 2023 the opening said he prayed that “the antisemitic persecution cease and that the hearts of Israel’s enemies should be softened.” Today’s opening says nothing about the 1933 rally or antisemitism at all, though the word survives twice in the body. A reader today does not learn that Margolies led a 20,000-person protest against Nazi persecution of Jews.

The word “antisemitism” appeared 2 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2010. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 2. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.

The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot

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Counts are of the opening paragraph only, the part most readers, search engines and AI training sets ever quote.

What was taken out

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  • Margolies’s 1933 prayer that antisemitic persecution of Jews cease, dropped from the opening entirely.

How it opened then, and now

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2010 (revision 314123376):

Rabbi Moses Sebulun Margolies (April 1851 – August 25, 1936) ( Template:Lang-he ) was a Russian -born American Orthodox rabbi, who served as senior rabbi of Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun on the Upper East Side of the New York City borough of Manhattan . In its obituary, The New York Times described Rabbi Margolies as the “dean of orthodox rabbis in North America”, a “Zionist leader and Jewish educator”. Margolies was born in Kroza , Russia in April 1851 and received his rabbinical training at the yeshivas in Kroza and Bialystok . He became the rabbi of Sloboda at age 26, serving there until he was summoned to Boston in 1889 to serve as the chief rabbi for that city’s Orthodox Jewish communi…

2025 (revision 1272879256):

Moses Sebulun Margolies (April 1851 – August 25, 1936) ( Hebrew : משה זבולן מרגליות ) was a Russian-born American Orthodox who served as senior rabbi of Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun on the Upper East Side of the New York City borough of Manhattan . In its obituary, The New York Times described Margolies as the “dean of orthodox rabbis in North America,” a “Zionist leader and Jewish educator.”

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