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מכרכר בכל עוז's avatar

יהי זכרו ברוך

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Shalom Lamm's avatar

A beautiful tribute.

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Mikhail Olivson's avatar

A likhtige GanEden, as my mom used to say.

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Don Coyote's avatar

Best wishes!

והיו עיניך רואות את אביך & he should be an inspiration!

(I would say more but I forget what qualifies for a rationalist Yartzeit.)

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Richie's avatar

עד ביאת הגואל.

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Noah's avatar

עד ביאת הגואל

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Just Curious's avatar

בבניין ציון תנוחם

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SimonB's avatar

Your father played a part of unwitting shadhan in 1971.

He was on the board of the Hillel House management committee, and they decided to close Hillel House for the Rosh Hashanah. All students at Hillel would go home for 2 days and then come back to resume their studies.

My to-be wife lived too far away to go home, so she stayed with us, five boys with elevated testosterone levels.

At this juncture, I should say that she stayed in a bedroom of a boy who had gone home.

I liked what I saw, and I liked what I tasted as she cooked for us in payment for the two days of staying with us.

We celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary last November.

So thank you, Dr. Slifkin (as he then was) for bringing us together.

Shimon Blackman

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Mordechai Gordon's avatar

Lovely man. Remember him and our Sunday afternoon trips to garden centres together with fondness.

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Joe Leibovich's avatar

Old friend of your father. He was a Professor at Salford, I was a grad student at Manchester. When he spent a year at the Weizmann Institute, I was a Senior Scientist, and I drove him around the Galil and the Golan. I remember we visited the alligator farm at Chamat Gader. He was several Years older than me, but we got along very well.

I believe we are distantly related. Your mothe, Marietta, was a Cohen from Manchester. Chaim and David Cohen were cousins of my father.

Love your blog and the work you do. Keep up

The good work

Joe Leibovich

Professor Emeritus

Cell Biology & Molecular Medicine

Rutgers University

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Sammy Katz's avatar

Long life! May your memories of him bring you comfort. I remember him well as the safety officer at JCT.

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Eli B's avatar

What's this Hebrew yortzeit? 6 nissan? Same as me.

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LOL's avatar

Huh? You're still alive.

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David Ohsie's avatar

Amazing comment for someone whose MO is to call everyone else clueless.

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LOL's avatar

Oh, David. I'm so sorry that you're still insulted about that comment I made earlier. Can I offer you a hanky?

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Don Coyote's avatar

Isn't he merely parsing the words & loling?

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David Ohsie's avatar

It’s clueless either way. Making a joke about a parent’s yarhzeit?

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Don Coyote's avatar

If you say so. Cheers to a great commenter! Cheers to a great reviewer of TCS!

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Don Coyote's avatar

Nothing about EB, but the day someone goes OTD & בחייהם קרוין כו is their Yortzeit. ;)

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