Jeff Arbus
Jeff Arbus
Sammy Luftspring
Jeff Arbus is Vice-President of Ontario Public Service Employees Union (retired); Special Advisor, Canadian Jewish Labour Committee; and lay leader at Congregation Beth Jacob in Sault Ste. Marie.
Jeff’s Jewish Heritage Hero is Sammy Luftspring, the boxer, a friend of his parents, who was named to the Canadian Olympic team for the 1936 Olympics in Germany, but boycotted and went public, saying that his boycott was over the Nazis' treatment of Jews in Germany. He had been the Canadian welterweight champion and wore the Star of David on his boxing trunks.