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​Who Nu?





​Rabbi Fuchs with his son Ben at The Garden, 2017 , watching the Knicks play the Cavs.
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Obviously, Rabbi Fuchs wasn't always a rabbi. This page is dedicated to some of the

​highlights and little-known facts about Stephen Lewis Fuchs.


Arthur Ashe, Stephen Lewis Fuchs, 1967
Stephen Fuchs with Arthur Ashe in 1967.
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Rabbi Stephen Fuchs, East Orange High School, Tennis
Stephen Fuchs at the tender age of 15-years-old.

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Rabbi Stephen Fuchs, Rochelle Fuchs' wedding.
Stephen Fuchs at his sister Rochelle's wedding in 1964.
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Rabbi Stephen Fuchs in Gaza, 1981
In Gaza, 1981, shortly after a romp in the Mediterranean surf with new friends Mahmoud and Fawzi.
Rabbi Stephen Fuchs, Hockey, 1964 Playing hockey for East Orange High School in 1964.





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East Orange HS Tennis Team 1962
East Orange High School Tennis Team 1962
1975, Columbia, MD, Tennis
1975, Winning the first of three Columbia, MD Memorial Day Singles Championships
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Rabbi Fuchs, 1967, Arthur Ashe, tennis
Stephen, Marty Riessen, Clark Graebner, Gene Garrett, Ron Holmberg, Arthur Ashe. In 1967 Rabbi Fuchs gave up his more lucrative position as Head Pro at Spring Garden Country Club in NJ to accept the position as Assistant Pro at the famed Concord Hotel in the Catskills. There, he worked under former NCAA Doubles Champ from  UCLA in 1950, the late Gene Garrett. Stephen came to the Concord on the condition that Garrett would spend time coaching him in off hours. Gene and Stephen became close friends.
Rabbi Stephen Fuchs & Arthur Ashe 1967, Concord HotelPicture
The Concord Hotel, 1967. Stephen Fuchs, Gene Scott, Gene Garrett, Arthur Ashe, Pierre Barthes and Rafael Osuna.
​Below is a memory shared by Gene Garrett's daughter, Helen Garrett:

It was the summer of 1967 and I was 8 ½ years old.  What stands out the most was that Steve was extremely handsome, and all the young women at the Concord used to hang around trying to catch his eye.

This included cozying up to me. 
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I was thrilled to suddenly have all these new glamorous ‘friends', until it dawned on me that they had ulterior motives.
They were trying to get to Steve through me!  From then on, whenever they would come around I’d just roll my eyes.
Years later when my father told me Steve had become a rabbi, I thought back to that summer and my ‘older’ friends and thought, “There must be lots of disappointed ladies out there!"

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Helen Garrett is now a nonprofit consultant living in Brooklyn, NY, primarily working on human rights and social justice issues.   
Her father, Walter Eugene Garrett, was the tennis pro at the Concord Hotel for five summers, and a Philosophy Professor during the rest of the year.   Her mother was a WWII refugee from Antwerp, Belgium who arrived in NYC in 1941 at the age of eight, after nearly a year in transit.   


How many rabbis do you know who’ve been on The Dating Game?
The gyrations came when the bachelorette asked Mr. Fuchs (Bachelor #3) to do his best Elvis Presley imitation.
She also asked Bachelor #2 the same thing, and he won (as she revealed when Jim Lange asked why she chose him) because he really could sing!

And Then It Happened...
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In 1973, Stephen met Victoria Steinberg, the love of his life. They married in 1974 in San Francisco, CA.
Stephen Fuchs, Vickie Steinberg
Stephen Fuchs & Vickie Steinberg, 1973
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Stephen Fuchs, Vickie Steinberg
Rabbi Stephen & Vickie (Steinberg) Fuchs December, 2016

An Adventure in Indonesia

When Rabbi Fuchs and Vickie were vacationing in Indonesia on July of this year, they made some new friends!
Rabbi Stephen Fuchs, Vickie Fuchs, Indonesia, komodo dragon
An orangutan, of course. Is he not the handsomest?
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A Komodo Dragon poses patiently.
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This is the rest of him.
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Native Indonesian Dancers.
Rabbi Stephen Fuchs
Repeatedly in the Bible, it is the woman who 'gets it' and the man who is clueless. Eve has been maligned for generations for the supposed fall of man, when in fact; she is the heroine of the elevation of humanity. ~

​"Women (Em)Power"  from "Why the Kof? Getting the Best of Rabbi Fuchs."