Renee Ghert-Zand is a reporter and feature writer for The Times of Israel.
Stephen Mark Erle (later David Rosenberg) at age six months in 1962. His birth mother Margaret Erle was coerced into signing away her parental rights. This photo was taken during the first of just two meetings Margaret and the baby s father birth father George Katz were allowed with him while in foster care prior to his adoption. (Courtesy of Margaret Erle Katz)
George Katz and Margaret Erle, when Margaret was six months pregnant and about to be sent to the Lakeview Home for Unwed Jewish Mothers on Staten Island, 1961. (Courtesy of Margaret Erle Katz)
The Sinister True Story of the Triplets Separated at Birth as Part of Cruel Social Experiment
In 1980, when Robert Shafran arrived for his first day of college at Sullivan County Community College in New York, he was confused and overwhelmed by people he had never met warmly greeting him with hugs and high-fives, and, strangest of all, calling him Eddy. The reason behind the odd reception emerged when he met his new roommate Michael Domitz.
It turned out that Michael’s roommate from the previous year was Eddy Galland, a young man who not only looked exactly like Robert, but walked, talked, and acted like him as well. The two men were exact copies of each other, so after Michael learned that Robert was born on the same day as his old roommate and that, like him, he was adopted, he decided the two of them had to meet.
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JMP Group Expands Life Sciences Investment Banking and Equity Research Platforms
JMP Group LLC (NYSE: JMP), an investment banking and alternative asset management firm, announced today that Fedora Baloiu has joined JMP Securities as a managing director and co-head of biopharma corporate finance. Additionally, Silvan Tuerkcan and Gobind Singh, a director and vice president, respectively, have both joined JMP Securities as senior equity research analysts focused on the biotechnology sector. All three are based in the firm’s New York office.
In connection with these key additions to JMP Securities’ life sciences franchise, David Kellman, a managing director and head of healthcare investment banking, will also serve as co-head of biopharma corporate finance, while David Schechner, a managing director in the healthcare investment banking group, has been named head of biopharma mergers and acquisitions.
homes to see, is mental illness heritable? eddy was in the hospital for i think it was three weeks. and then he came back to work at the restaurant. i wasn t there. david was with him all the time. i think maybe he could give you better detail about it. i was running the kitchen. eddy wasn t in. i was running the kitchen, he was running the front of the house. that s the way it worked. and i knew who he was. and he lived across the street. so david called me from the restaurant and he asked me to look out the window to see if eddy s car was in the driveway.
i don t think she ever got over the fact that she had triplets and had to give them up. you know, to us at 19, you drink like a fish, you think you re invincible. but we found it a little concerning that she was pretty much keeping up with us. you know. the apple doesn t fall that far from the tree, and that s the tree. i was less than thrilled. and we had our parents already, so it was we met her, and it was okay. but she was not a particularly close part of our lives. we were all young and starting our marriages and careers. hi, welcome to triplets! david kellman, edward