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On Tues., May 10, the students and faculty of Northwest Yeshiva High School celebrated Yom Ha’Atzmaut, Israel’s 63rd Independence Day, by holding Israeli flags and singing as they paraded two-and-a-half
miles from their school to Island Crust Café for a pizza lunch. The school hopes to make the Israel walk, planned by senior Sarah Varon, an annual event.
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WWbin laden Page 1 In the case of bin Laden there is, she because he rewards us or we fear punish- States to stand trial.
said, “a sense of relief, an affirmation ment,” he said. “But we’re human, we’re Just as Israeli agents didn’t kill Nazi
Consider the Purim story, where the God’s justice has been carried out.” Such not angels. We live in a world where war criminal Adolf Eichmann when they
Jews feasted after slaying those who were, an event, however, “is a time for sobriety, people need reinforcement, need a sense found him in Argentina a half-century
admittedly, arming to slay them. Or God’s not celebration.” that it’s all worth it in the end.” ago, but tried him in Jerusalem to expose
command to King Saul to obliterate the Nevertheless, Schonfeld added, one The Jewish way is not to gloat, Herring the true horror of the Holocaust and give
entire house of Amalek for its wicked ways: needs to distinguish between an ideal, reli- said. It is appropriate to rejoice when evil its victims a chance to speak their truth,
“Do not spare them, but kill both man and giously inspired response and the reality of doers get their just reward, but the rejoic- so would putting bin Laden on trial have
woman, and infant, ox and sheep, camel human nature. ing should be because we are witness- been an opportunity to uncover the real
and donkey” (I Sam. 15: 2-3). “Sept. 11 was a day of tremendous ing God’s power and justice. It shouldn’t face of al-Qaida, he said.
Conversely, one of the best-known ritu- trauma,” she said, and the raucous street come, he said, from “a self-satisfied smug “That would have been an extraordinary
als of the Passover seder is spilling 10 drops celebrations can be viewed as a kind sense of ‘Yes, I’ve been proven right.’ act in support of upholding the values we
of wine when mentioning the Ten Plagues of catharsis. “What we’re seeing is a “It’s an affirmation that God is not just claim make us different,” Waskow said.
to symbolize a lessening of our own joy in reminder of how personally people were an abstract idea, a Creator, but part of our Pointing to the story of Moses, Waskow
the face of Egyptian suffering. In Sanhedrin affected. It’s an understandable human lives,” Herring continued. “God cares. quotes the Midrash as saying that one
39b, God admonishes the angels for rejoic- response that we as Jews are blessed to ele- God loves us. That’s an essential article reason Moses was not permitted to cross
ing when the Egyptian soldiers drown in the vate to a Jewish response.” of our faith, that God rewards the righ- the Jordan and enter the Promised Land
Red Sea, saying “The work of My hands is Rabbi Basil Herring, executive vice teous and punishes the wicked. We rejoice was because in his youth he killed an
drowning in the sea, and you want to sing?” president of the Rabbinical Council of because our faith is borne out.” Egyptian overseer, taking justice into his
“I don’t think we ‘celebrate’ a death,” America, the professional association Rabbi Arthur Waskow, a Jewish own hands without bringing him to trial.
explained Rabbi Julie Schonfeld, executive for Orthodox clergy, also distinguished Renewal rabbi and director of Phila- Trying bin Laden “would have been
vice president of the Rabbinical Assembly, between the ideal and the real. delphia’s Shalom Center, said he would messy,” Waskow acknowledged, “but in
the professional association of Conserva- “In an ideal world, we serve God have preferred that the Navy SEALS had the long run I’m sure it would have been
tive clergy. because we want to do His will, not brought bin Laden back to the United better.”
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Help local Jewish veterans this Memorial Day Five Women to Watch: Giti Fredman and Diane Burnett
Our series of Five Women to Watch continues with Giti Fredman, who brings a sense of Jewish community
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Two local Jewish veterans, Robert Shay and Alan Silverman, have launched the Jewish to local Jewish women, and Diane Burnett, who uses her own experience in helping people trying to
Veterans Remembrance Project to recognize Jewish veteran gravesites throughout the overcome substance addiction.
Seattle area this Memorial Day. Shay and Silverman are currently gathering the names of
deceased Jewish veterans from the greater Seattle area, as well as gender, cemetery, grave- Summer books: History through fiction 12
site number (easily attainable from cemetery offices), branch of military, and rank when Sometimes the best way to learn history is through the eyes of fictional characters, because it makes the
discharged. period more personal. This month’s review section focuses on historical fiction.
They also seek volunteers — including individuals, youth groups, scout troops, Hebrew
schools or others — to help place and remove plaques on Memorial Day. In the name of peace 20
For more information about the plaques or volunteering, contact Robert Shay at Yariv Oppenheimer, the director of Israel’s Peace Now movement, came through Seattle to talk about his
robertallanshay@gmail.com or Alan Silverman at alans@festivals-inc.com. mission, his challenges, and his hopes for the near future.
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Jerusalem. The exhibit later went to the music,” April 29) referred to Thessalonika as an island. It is actually on Greece’s mainland.
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“I covered the story have to pace yourself and Jacob Goren, Ben Spear and of soccer and other sports,” he says. Ben
from the beginning…in work at it every day.” And, Zac Zilz have been schoolmates, plays on the Yeshiva golf team (yes, the
early 2007,” says “bare- no, he hasn’t interviewed friends and campers at Camp Sol- yeshiva has a golf team!). A budding film-
foot bandologist” Jackson Colton. No one has. omon Schechter for many years. Last maker, he finds similarities in audio edit-
Holtz. The Herald of Ever- A founding board member summer that all coalesced into a business. ing and running a sound system.
ett reporter just released his of West Seattle congregation They were emceeing the camp’s evening Zac is involved in B’nai B’rith Youth
book, Fly, Colton, Fly, about Kol HaNeshamah, Jackson shows and putting on skits. One night they and spent this year helping the Eastside
“Barefoot Bandit” Colton is “somehow…back on the asked if they could DJ a dance, and a new chapter increase its membership. A “con-
Harris-Moore, the teenage board again after almost six DJ business was born. noisseur of all kinds of music,” he also
Camano Island burglar who or seven years off [it].” The Back in the Seattle area, Benzacob — plays water polo. He says the best part
branched out into national 8-year-old congregation got a mesh of their names — quickly began of Benzacob is “all the new people we
and international theft before tribe its start when — after much getting work in and
being arrested in the Bahamas. talk — “a group of eight of us outside the Jewish
The book draws on the 100-plus arti- had dinner at Buddha Ruksa community. They’ve
cles Jackson wrote working the paper’s in West Seattle” and created the progres- played for youth
crime beat. After the bandit’s 2010 arrest, sive congregation. groups and schools,
Jackson felt there was a strong enough “We’re a synagogue that got its start for Bar and Bat Mitz-
narrative, and certainly enough material, over Thai food,” he says. vah parties and family
It’s a natural fit for Jack- events, and organized
son, who grew up in Boston independent dances
attending Temple Israel, for high schoolers,
where he and his dad were using Facebook to
both active members. publicize the events.
He finds “a Jewish With Seattle resi-
lesson” in Fly, Colton, Fly dents Jacob and Ben
about community and com- graduating from
munity responsibility. “It’s a Interlake High School Josh Voss
cautionary tale,” he says. i n B e l l e v u e a n d From left to right, Jacob Goren, Ben Spear, and Zac Zils, the DJs
We’re captivated by Northwest Yeshiva, Benzacob.
a story about a modern respectively, and Zac
American outlaw folk hero, from Mercer Island High, Benzacob will meet.” It’s been great, he says, to learn
“but it’s also a sad story be on partial hiatus for the next few years. to “approach people and take risks,” all
Joel Magalnick about a child who was Jacob will attend the University of Wash- skills he expects he will be able to use in
Jackson Holtz autographs copies of Fly, Colton, Fly at Elliott Bay neglected and began steal- ington and has access to the equipment the future.
Book Co. during a book launch event in April. ing to survive.” if he’s needed; Ben will study at Derech
Jackson has moved to Eitz Haim yeshiva in Israel; Zac is attend- A correction: I transposed information
for a book. His proposal was picked up by features reporting for The Herald, but he ing University of Redlands. Although the about Inge Marcus in the last issue. She
Penguin’s New American Library. still covers the bandit when news emerges. three will be at Schechter this summer, retired from Saint Martin’s University in
He wrote the book in “just over a He lives in Seattle with his partner, Jeremy they can get away for bookings. (Ben will Lacey as an assistant professor in biology
month” so it could come to market while Moser, and their cat Emily. “I love to return to the UW next year.) in 2007 and only taught very briefly at
interest still abounded. The pace was cook,” he says, and last summer he and Aside from school and Benzacob, Jacob Pacific Lutheran in 1985.
daunting, he says, but as a runner he com- Jeremy started a pea patch. Find more has been active in the business leadership
pared it to “any endurance event…you information at www.jacksonholtz.com. organization DECA. He also plays “a lot
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Diane Burnett
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Emily K. Alhadeff Assistant Editor, JTNews
“I have given my background to just Burnett comes to JFS with a Master of myth in the Jewish community that Jews
about every population except my own,” Social Work from the University of Wash- don’t have a problem with addiction.”
says Diane Burnett, the new director of ington and a Chemical Dependency pro- Alternatives to Addiction seeks to
the Alternatives to Addiction program at fessional certificate, as well as experience remove the barriers between Jews strug-
Jewish Family Service. “I had been told working with Harborview and UW Med- gling with addiction and the help they
about the position here at JFS, and I wasn’t ical Centers, the King County Jail and need, connecting them with the commu-
even looking. But something told me to King County Drug Court. She has been a nity at large. The program is three years
investigate it further. It just grew to be an member of several chemical dependency old, and Burnett is the second director.
obvious match.” clinical studies to define best practices. Among the addictions prevalent in
Like several of our other Women to Burnett has served veterans, the elderly, the community, “I think that there’s a lot Courtesy JFS
Watch, Burnett relays a sense of a guid- people of color, women and teens, but of alcoholism,” she says. “There’s a huge
ing force that brought her to her current never the Jewish community exclusively. problem with prescription narcotics. A behaviors, too.
position. “Our program is designed to increase lot of people have chronic pain...We need “Anything we do to try to change our
“It just shows you, you don’t always awareness of drug and alcohol abuse in the to keep our kids safe from our medicine reality can become addictive,” Burnett
know the best thing for yourself,” she says. Jewish community,” she says. “There is a cabinets.” But addiction extends to other says. It’s “a symptom of dissatisfaction with
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Giti Fredman:
Bringing Judaism home
Emily K. Alhadeff Assistant Editor, JTNews
As Giti Fredman talks, a theme emerges: know the Jews of West Seattle and let them observant Jews — and hearing more about
Inspiration. She describes how she landed know there is a Jewish resource here,” Giti the JWRP, she changed her mind. After
in West Seattle (of all places), building says. the conference she called her husband and
Jewish community and leading women’s The Torah Learning Center is one of her mother-in-law to let them know they
trips to Israel as a result of inspired choices two synagogues that have popped up in would be taking care of the kids while she
and an unusually grounded sense that she West Seattle in recent years. But she tries went to Israel.
can make change in the world. to dispel the myth that one can only attend “It’s kind of like a Birthright for Jewish
The Lakewood, N.J. native had her life the institution where he or she pays dues. moms,” Fredman says.
more or less planned out during the eight “We’re not just a synagogue, we’re a By taking women with children still at
years she and her husband, Rabbi David Jewish resource,” she says. “It’s not a contra- home to Israel to engage more deeply with
Fredman, spent living in Jerusalem and diction. You can be a member somewhere Judaism, she hopes that the women will
Ramat Beit Shemesh, where she ran a else and come to our Shabbat dinner.” return and “inspire her husband and her
baking business. Besides, she pointed out, they don’t kids living at home.”
“We thought we were going to live in collect dues. “All these women are bringing what Sara Simon
Israel forever,” Giti, 29, says. The same sense of following a calling they learned back to their families,” she
But after her husband was inspired that brought the Fredmans to Seattle is says. “All the women are more committed she’d like to start a Jewish storytime.
by a going-away party for his best friend, what gave Giti the strength to start lead- to learning about Judaism.” “I feel like I’m a Jewish woman, I have
who had been hired by the Seattle Kollel’s ing yearly trips to Israel for Jewish moth- What’s unique about Fredman as a a lot of talent, I’m really capable and have
Rabbi Avrohom David to lead a Kollel in ers. The trip is through the Jewish Women’s woman to watch is her dedication to a lot of energy,” she says. “I have a deep
Portland, they knew what they had to do. Renaissance Project, which focuses on Jewish womanhood in and of itself. desire to share what I know with other
The Fredmans picked up and moved to bringing Jewish values to a central place in “We believe the woman is the founda- women. I’m very happy with my role.”
West Seattle to help build the Jewish com- Jewish homes through women’s education. tion of the home,” she says.
munity. The couple runs the West Seattle “I knew about this trip for a while, Fredman hosts the monthly Lunar For more information about attending the next
Torah Learning Center, where they dedi- and I thought, ‘I can’t do it, I can’t leave Latte Rosh Chodesh women’s discussion Jewish Women’s Renaissance Project, which
cate their time to hosting Shabbat meals, the kids,’” she says (she’s got four). But group and until recently was leading a leaves later this month, contact Shaindel
leading classes and holding events. after attending a conference for women in Jewish Mommy and Me series. Her new Bresler at shainbresler@yahoo.com or
“Our goal is just to unite and get to kiruv — the practice of reaching out to less project is “Jewish Kids in the Kitchen” and 206-779-4373.
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Summer books:
History through fiction’s eyes
by Diana Brement JTNews Columnist
Readers can often benefit from learn- group actions show the range of experience life we learn the early history of the area
ing history through fiction, a testament of survivors and martyrs alike. Some are and of Israel’s earliest European immi-
to historical fiction’s enduring popularity. killed, some hide, and some become Swed- grants who, side by side with their Arab
An author can “know” a fictional charac- ish citizens under the auspices of Raoul neighbors, struggled to make a living off
ter more deeply, creating a more sympa- Wallenberg, a small, but important char- an unyielding land.
thetic, moving and personal portrait than acter in the book. Jewish and gentile char- From 20th-century terror we move
an historical figure might make. acters are pulled into the maelstrom. Some to 21st-century terrorism in The Fourth
Three new historical novels, all from go to the camps, some disappear, and as Target, by Nik Klieman (independent,
foreign authors, offer insight into specific the living nightmares churn on, we see paper, $15). This book, by an American-
periods spanning about a century of time. how people react — some driven to action, born Israeli and former El Al publicist,
Gratitude, by the Hungarian-Cana- some to despair, and some to heroism. caught my interest because it has a map of
dian author Joseph Kertes (St. Martin’s, In Valley of Strength, (Toby, cloth, Washington on the cover with an alarm-
cloth, $26.99), explores Hungarian Jewry’s $24.95), Israeli novelist Shulamit Lapid ing flag pin stuck into Tacoma, marking it
short but traumatic entry into the Holo- novelizes a period not often given much as a target of terrorism.
caust, starting with the 1944 Nazi inva- thought. More than 50 years before the Journalist Jonathan Summers is an air-
sion through the end of the war. Until the Holocaust, horrific pogroms were sweep- line terrorism expert who becomes an ama-
moment of invasion, Hungarian Jews and ing across Eastern Europe, driving many teur detective enmeshed in an international
gentiles lived under an illusion of protec- to emigrate. conspiracy after his daughter is killed in Lea Tillem, a 16-year-old runaway with
tion they assumed the Hungarian-German Written in Hebrew in 1982 and only an airline bombing. The book suffers from unusual powers, meets Jack Konar. Jack
alliance gave them. Kertes dramatically recently translated into English, Valley many of the problems of self-published is building a spaceship in anticipation of
captures the speed at which the Nazis tells the story of Fania, a 16-year-old girl, books. Despite writing, punctuation and the arrival of the Chosen Ones, who will
move to violate and dismantle the lives, the sole survivor of her village’s pogrom, factual problems (it’s Pike Place Market, not in turn herald the coming of the Messiah.
confidence and patriotism of those Jews. who arrives in Ottoman-ruled Palestine Pike’s Place, and it’s Puget Sound, not the The author — a stand-up comic and hurdy
We learn the facts through the charac- in the late 19th century with her deranged Pacific!), layout and formatting issues, the gurdy player — thrives on word play and
ters of the Beck family in Budapest, whose brother, her intellectual uncle, and her story still held my interest. I of course kept esoteric Jewish knowledge, and I can’t
first hint of the future comes when they baby, a product of rape. She hastily agrees reading to learn the Pacific Northwest’s role help think that in his defense he’d say that
take in Lily, the sole Jewish survivor of her to marry a farmer and moves to the in the plot. there’s nothing wilder here than some of
village’s ruthless evacuation by Nazi and remote farm settlement of Gai Oni, now In Breakfast with the Ones You Love, the stories in the Tanach.
Hungarian soldiers. Their individual and the town of Rosh Pinah. Through Fania’s by Eliot Fintushel (Bantam, paper, $12),
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Books in brief
Diana Brement JTNews Columnist
Judaism In the face of death, in that silence, and stadt (Schocken-Nextbook, cloth, $24.95).
Imagine: John Lennon and the Jews, A in the passive state of “patienthood,” he The award-winning historian presents a
Philosophical Rampage, by Ze’ev Maghen thought he discovered clues to the origins readable and fascinating reevaluation of
(independent, paper, $12.50). Don’t be of religious belief. Fortunately, Kugel sur- the groundbreaking trial that became a
put off by the title of this book, it’s about a vived to write this book, an exploration of touchstone for judicial proceedings world-
lot more than John Lennon, although the scripture and scholarship, in which he pro- wide in which victims of genocide con-
author uses a critique of the song lyrics as poses that religion developed in response front their perpetrators. Beginning with
a foundation for his “philosophical ram- to the common human existential empti- the capture of SS Lieutenant Colonel Adolf
page.” His “Why be Jewish?” argument ness and ability to see ourselves as a very Eichmann by Israeli agents in Argentina
has its roots in a long-ago encounter with small part of a very big world. It’s that in 1960, Lipstadt moves on to describe his
some Israeli Hare Krishna acolytes at the “ancient sense of self,” which Kugel felt televised Tel Aviv trial, which riveted the
Los Angeles airport. Maghen — Ameri- personally when his “background music” world. Lipstadt was a leader in bringing
can-born, but now an Israeli professor of stopped, that led him to explore this phe- Holocaust survivors to talk publicly about
Arabic literature and Islamic history at nomenon on a wider scale. Building on the their experiences and focuses on the dra-
Bar-Ilan University — writes, “the ensuing framework of his personal cancer experi- matic effect that survivor testimony had in
pages are what I would have said to them,” ence, he brings history, neurology, anthro- that court of law, testimony that itself was
had he had the time and opportunity. pology, poetry and religious writing not without controversy. In a world that
Maghen is smart (very!), funny, crit- together to paint a portrait of the develop- had not really understood the personal sto-
ical, irreverent and lucid, and he puts it ment of religion in human society. ries of the millions who died and the hun-
all together with equal doses of philoso- God of Me: Imagining God through- dreds of thousands who survived, the trial
phy, pop culture and religion, and lots of out Your Lifetime, by Rabbi David Lyon meant, writes Lipstadt, “the story of the
entertaining anecdotes. Where else could (Jewish Lights, paper, $16.99). Lyon, in a Holocaust…was heard anew… The telling
you find Star Trek’s Mr. Spock and phi- sense, introduces us to God. This short and may not have been entirely new, but the
losopher Immanuel Kant quoted in the sweet book bridges the God-talk gap, help- hearing was” (author’s emphasis).
same paragraph? Even if you don’t agree ing bring God into our modern, everyday
with him (and he delineates at the begin- lives. Moving through the different stages Non-Fiction
ning who should and shouldn’t read this of life, he uses Torah to demonstrate the Better by Mistake: The Unexpected
book), it’s a thought-provoking and enter- point of each chapter, and concludes with Benefits of Being Wrong, by Alina Tugend
taining ride. questions for discussion. Parents of teens (Riverhead, cloth, $25.95). We are all
In the Valley of the Shadow: On the and young adults may find this book par- wrong on occasion, and we all make mis-
Foundations of Religious Belief, by James ticularly helpful when following the Deu- takes, so why is it so hard to admit them?
Kugel (Free Press, cloth, $26). When this teronomy’s injunction to “teach them to The New York Times columnist tells us go about handling them as parents, as
preeminent biblical scholar got a cancer your children to discuss them,” especially that a piece she wrote about making mis- spouses, as students, as doctors, but most
diagnosis about 10 years ago, and given while their kids are at the stage of ques- takes became one of the Times’ “most especially in the wake of the financial col-
only a few years to live, he was not just tioning their beliefs or challenging their e-mailed” articles, and the responses lapse of 2008, as business people. There’s
worried. He writes that “the background parents’ beliefs or instructions. filled the author’s inbox with readers’ sto- a downside to striving for perfection, and
music stopped…the music of daily life ries about their own mistakes. Tugend rewards in acknowledging and embracing
that’s constantly going, the music of infi- Holocaust explores how we make mistakes, usually the imperfection in all of us.
nite time and possibilities.” The Eichmann Trial, by Deborah E. Lip- cover them up, and how we should really
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Bat Mitzvah Bat Mitzvah
Danielle Rachel Bensussen Maddie Rose Parsons
Danielle will celebrate her Bat Mitzvah on May 14, 2011 Maddie will celebrate her Bat Mitzvah on May 14, 2011, at
at Herzl–Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation on Mercer Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation on Mercer Island.
Island. Maddie is the daughter of Robin and Jim Parsons of
Dani is the daughter of Larry and Shelley Bensussen of Bellevue and sister of Ali. Her grandparents are Barbara
Bellevue and sister of Seth and Josh. Her grandparents are Springut of Boca Raton, Fla., the late Max Springut, and the
Saul and Marion Rothstein of Spokane, Isaac Bensussen of late Elmer and Louise Parsons.
Seattle, and the late Revella Bensussen. Maddie is a 7th grader at Chinook Middle School. She
Dani is a 7th grader at the Overlake School. She enjoys enjoys volleyball, basketball, Japanese, music and animals.
soccer, basketball, shopping and spending time with family For her mitzvah project she is conducting a supplies and
and friends. Dani is collecting donations for the Humane food drive for the Humane Society of Bellevue.
Society and has started a Youth Mitzvah Fund at the Jewish
Federation of Greater Seattle to donate to nonprofit
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Bar Mitzvah
Noah Ethan Stulberg
Noah will celebrate his Bar Mitzvah on May 21, 2011 at
Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation.
Isaac S. Morhaime Noah is the son of Barry Stulberg and the late Gail
November 20, 1918–April 17, 2011 Stulberg and the brother of Hannah Stulberg. His grandpar-
Isaac S. Morhaime was born November 20, 1918 in ents are Dr. H. Jerome and Elaine Stulberg and Yoram Stav
Seattle to Samuel and Sultana Morhaime. He passed and Naomi Stuchinsky, all of Sherman Oaks, Calif.
away peacefully at his Mercer Island home on April 17, Noah is a 7th grader at Pacific Cascade Middle School.
2011. He enjoys snowboarding, spending summers at B’nai Brith
Ike, as he was known to all of his family and friends, Camp and hanging out with friends and family. Noah is
married the love of his life, Sophie Baroh, on June 27, developing “Carving for a Cure,” a fundraiser for skiers and
1942. He is survived by his children, Stan (Esther) snowboarders to raise money for ovarian cancer research.
Morhaime and Suzanne Morhaime; grandchildren Sarina
(Michael) Behar Natkin, Rob (Kate) Morhaime, Ben
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Ike enjoyed sports, playing golf until his mid 80s, and watching football, basketball and
baseball with his wife Sophie.
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Ike served with the 42nd Division during World War II, and was with the troops as they
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