Former President Clinton calls Ginsburg ‘one of the most extraordinary justices ever to serve’
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was remembered at an online service on the eve of Rosh Hashanah at Adas Israel Congregation in Washington, DC, according to a congregant.
A photo of Ginsburg was posted during the mourner’s Kaddish.
Rabbi Lauren Holtzblatt, whose husband clerked for Ginsburg a decade ago, shared memories of the late Supreme Court justice, the congregant said.
“She imagined the best for our country, she imagined the law being one that would protect all of the American citizens and could also be used as a document to find our North Star,” the rabbi said. “At at time when equality was not given to women, she fought for us and she fought for us with grace, with humility, with persistence with chutzpah and with knowing that law better than anyone else.”
Holtzblatt then shared a message with the congregation: “I want to ask you tonight as you think over this news and as we all ponder what this means for us in the days and weeks ahead, that we not make this about the year 2020.”
“Justice Ginsburg is so much bigger than 2020 and this moment that we are in. She is one of our great American heroes and she asks us to think big, to dream big, to be creators and to live in her legacy of justice.”
