attended the university. Tuchin vaguely
remembered one of the daughters, Meryl,
and Shapiro continually urged him to look
her up. It took Tuchin a while to realize he
was being set up.
Tuchin and Meryl, who is an
ophthalmologist at UCLA, now have two
children—Jordan, 12, and Jessica, 9.
“My son is on the baseball, basketball
and football teams, and I think I may have
missed only one game in the last three years
because that’s important to me,” Tuchin
says. “One of the benefits of being a partner
in a small law firm is I can manage my time,
so the question is where I squeeze my time.”
It’s a good question. He certainly doesn’t
squeeze it at his synagogue, where he
is immediate past president, nor at The
American Israel Public Affairs Committee,
where he is a national board member. “A lot
of my family died in the Holocaust,” he says.
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TUCHIN TALKS ABOUT SOME OF THE
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received a short-term visa to come to the
United States but couldn’t get a visa to stay;
so they resettled in Canada.
“I grew up hearing stories of these
experiences, which lead to my deep sense
that there should be a Jewish homeland
where Jews around the world can go if they
want to and need to.”
He also lobbies on behalf the U.S.-Israel
relations. No surprise, he does it across
the political spectrum and with an eye
toward consensus. “I’m very bipartisan,”
he says. “I’ve had the chance to travel with
Congresspeople to Israel, where we meet
with Israelis and Palestinians on both the
left and the right. They always come away
looking at the situation in a different way.”
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TUCHIN ON WHY CLOSE, SOMETIMES LIFELONG,
RELATIONSHIPS CAN DEVELOP BET WEEN
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