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Airboat on the surface of Larz Anderson Park lagoon, Brookline, MA
Eruvin in urban areas often grow by addition of new segments to their original borders. In October 2016, we extended our community eruv to include a large swatch of the southern residential section of Brookline, MA. We had been approached by Rabbi Mendy Uminer of the Chabad of Chestnut Hill with a request to enable his growing community to (1) utilize an Eruv for enhancing the Shabbos experience in his neighborhoods and (2) enable people to walk (while carrying) on Shabbos between the larger eruv and his area.
Dr. Alex Goldfarb
tefillin in his backpack.
Alex Goldfarb, 57, was an esteemed doctor and also an avid mountain climber. The Russian-born Goldfarb went missing two weeks ago on the five-mile-tall Pastore Peak, the 12
th tallest mountain in the world. His body was found near the mountainâs summit.
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âEven in Pakistan, Alex wore his yarmulke and
tzitzis proudly. And he always brought his
tefillin on the mountain,â said Rabbi Mendy Uminer of Chabad of Chestnut Hill. âClimbers measure everything they take with them. They even share a toothbrush. But, Alex wouldnât go anywhere without
tefillin. He took them to the highest and most remote altitudes you could find.â
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Illustrative A Pakistan Army helicopter flies over the site of an avalanche over Gayari camp, April 18, 2012 (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)
(JTA) A prominent Jewish doctor in Boston died this week while attempting a challenging ascent in the mountains of Pakistan.
Alex Goldfarb, an immigrant from the former Soviet Union, was an experienced climber as well as a beloved nephrologist who taught at Harvard Medical School, authored medical texts and traveled to New York last year to treat patients during the first wave of COVID-19 patients there.
His son told the Boston Globe that he also was “a devout Jew” who was animated by the value of