Rabbi Allen Secher, leading a congregation in New Jersey at the time, said he was drawn to Georgia by King’s powerful message. “I’ll tell you what prepared King to be a leader. It was his kishkes,” the rabbi said, using the Yiddish word for “guts.” “He wasn’t one hundred percent perfect … But what we knew from the depths of his being was that he was what religion was supposed to be. He might have had some of the training, but he had all of the soul.”
