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<\/a><\/em>played there. The Jazz Temple was in business from 1960 to 1963. I passed the Jazz Temple weekly on my way to Sunday school at The Temple, the gold-domed Reform temple in University Circle.<\/p>\nRabbi Abba Hillel Silver was the head rabbi at The Temple. He once spoke at the United Nations, advocating for the founding of the State of Israel. Rabbi Silver\u2019s son, Dan, was the assistant rabbi. Dan\u00a0 played football at Harvard and occasionally wrote for the Cleveland Edition<\/em>.<\/p>\n At Sunday<\/strong><\/span> school, kids were mostly from Shaker Heights. One kid got a ride in a limo to temple. The driver wore a chauffeur\u2019s cap. The limo wasn’t a Rolls; it was a Buick station wagon.<\/p>\n I couldn\u2019t grasp how temple<\/em> — the word — fit into the Jazz Temple. Was Jazz a religion too? Many years later, I met former beatniks who had actually gone to shows at the Jazz Temple.<\/p>\n —<\/p>\nThe Jazz Temple was blown up in 1963. Somebody didn\u2019t like the club or the owner, Winston Willis, a controversial black businessman. At The Temple religious school, we students attended services every Sunday morning to hear Rabbi Silver. (Services were on Sunday, not Saturday, in the 1950s at Silver’s.) Rabbi Silver looked like God. Nowadays, at The Temple East in Beachwood, there is a Abba Hillel Silver memorial study. The rabbi\u2019s desk is laid out like he just stepped out for lunch. He died in 1963, just six days after Kennedy got murdered.<\/p>\n