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Victims of the April 30, 2021, Mount Meron disaster: Top row (L-R): Chen Doron, Haim Rock, Ariel Tzadik, Yossi Kohn, Yisrael Anakvah, Yishai Mualem, Yosef Mastorov, Elkana Shiloh and Moshe Levy; 2nd row (L-R): Shlomo Zalman Leibowitz, Shmuel Zvi Klagsbald, Mordechai Fakata, Dubi Steinmetz, Abraham Daniel Ambon, Eliezer Gafner, Yosef Greenbaum, Yehuda Leib Rubin and Yaakov Elchanan Starkovsky; 3rd row (L-R): Haim Seler, Yehoshua Englard, Moshe Natan Neta Englard, Yedidia Hayut, Moshe Ben Shalom, David Krauss, Eliezer Tzvi Joseph, Yosef Yehuda Levy and Yosef Amram Tauber; 4th row (L-R): Menachem Knoblowitz, Elazar Yitzchok Koltai, Yosef David Elhadad, Shraga Gestetner, Yonatan Hebroni,
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By Moshe Kinderlehrer/Co-Publisher, The Jewish Link | February 18, 2021
I am dedicating my publisher’s space to my friend, our writer, published author, longtime Teaneck resident and proud Jewish Link contributor, Joe Rotenberg, z”l, who passed away suddenly early last week.
It’s hard to describe Joe Rotenberg in one relatively short column. I laughed along with the hundreds of viewers at Joe’s virtual levaya when Joe’s rabbi, Rabbi Shalom Baum of Congregation Keter Torah, began his hesped last week by apologizing to Joe that his levaya would not be as long as Joe might have preferred. For those who knew Joe, Rabbi Baum was so right.
Of whose true fixed and resting quality
There is no fellow in the firmament. Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 1.
While spoken in an altogether different context, these words aptly describe the life of Marvin Staiman.
It seems as though the lives of many of us have been totally defined by Marvin and his activities in this community. It is hard to find anyone active in the religious, social, political or eleemosynary component of Williamsport life who was not touched by Marvin Staiman.
My own involvement with the Staiman family began soon after I arrived in this city from Washington DC. I was invited to the home of the Staiman family, and before long Marvin’s connection with Congregation Ohev Sholom became my network as well.