History of the Jews in Puerto Rico of them fled to Miami, Florida; however, Puerto Rico also received a large influx of Jewish emigres from Cuba. Abe Fortas, who was an associate judge for the United States Supreme Court, and the son of Orthodox Jews, was a friend of Luis Muñoz Marin and frequented Puerto Rico often during Roosevelt's, Kennedy's, and Lyndon B. Johnson's administrations. He participated in the drafting of the Constitution of Puerto Rico and gave Luis Muñoz Marin and his administrators legal advice whenever called upon. According to Abe Fortas's biographer Laura Kalman, "Puerto Rico engaged Fortas. It became the one cause to which
Military history of Puerto Rico the first American undersea spy missions of the cold war. The mission was cut short when one the "Cochino"s 4,000-pound batteries caught fire. Commander Benitez directed the firefighting, trying both to save the ship and his crew from the toxic gases. The crew members of the "Tusk" rescued all except one "Cochino" crew member and convinced Commander Benitez, who was the last man on the "Cochino", to board the "Tusk". The "Cochino" sank off the coast of Norway two minutes after Benitez's departure. Benitez retired as a rear admiral from the Navy in 1957. Sixty-one thousand Puerto Ricans served in