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==Personal life== [[File:Adolph-and-iphigene-ochs-1902.jpg|thumb|Ochs and his daughter, Iphigene, {{circa|1902}}]] In 1884, Ochs married Effie Wise, a daughter of [[Rabbi]] [[Isaac Mayer Wise]] of [[Cincinnati]], who was the leading exponent of [[Reform Judaism]] in the United States, and the founder of [[Hebrew Union College]].<ref name=AJAIsaacMeyer>[http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0436/ms0436.html American Jewish Archives: "A Finding Aid to the Isaac Mayer Wise Papers. 1838-1931 - Manuscript Collection No. 436"] retrieved September 27, 2015</ref><ref name=BenjaminMay>{{cite book |last1=May|first1=Max Benjamin|title=Isaac Mayer Wise: The Founder of American Judaism; a Biography |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J9s-AAAAYAAJ&q=Isaac+Mayer+Wise+daughter&pg=PA380|year=1992|publisher=Littman Library Of Jewish Civilization|page=380|isbn=978-0197100592}}</ref> In 1928, Ochs built the [[Mizpah Congregation]] Temple in [[Chattanooga, Tennessee]] in memory of his parents, Julius and Bertha Ochs.<ref>Elena Irish Zimmerman, ''Chattanooga'', Arcadia Publishing, 1998, p. 49.</ref> The Georgian colonial building was designated as a Tennessee Historical Preservation Site in 1979.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.mizpahcongregation.org/aboutus/history/ |title=Mizpah. |access-date=2009-04-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090530190624/http://www.mizpahcongregation.org/aboutus/history/ |archive-date=2009-05-30 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Ochs fought [[anti-Semitism]] during his career. He was active in the early years of the [[Anti-Defamation League]], where he served as an executive board member, and used his influence as publisher of ''[[The New York Times]]'' to convince other newspapers nationwide to cease the unjustified caricaturing and lampooning of [[Jews]] in the American media. Ochs was an opponent of a [[Jewish state]] in [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Medoff|first=Rafael|title=Jewish Americans and Political Participation: A Reference Handbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FSgiR7OD8DsC&pg=PA216|year=2002|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-57607-314-8|pages=215β216}}</ref>
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