Claire Flom, 82, a philanthropist who supported education, legal and Jewish causes for decades, died Nov. 24, 2007, after a long battle with cancer. Her husband Joseph is a name partner and co-founder of New York City super-law firm, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates, which has 2,000 attorneys and 22 offices on four continents.
Flom was founder of Gateway School in New York for children with learning disabilities, a cancer research funder at NYU Medical Center, a named donor to the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School, a founding member and guiding force of the Advisory Board of the Feerick Center for Social Justice at Fordham Law School, supporter of Federal Bar Council and Federal Bar Foundation, and a donor to Food Allergy Initiative, among many others. (more…)
From time to time, I’ve been asked who was the most influential person in my life. The answer never varies. I’ve always been proud to answer, “my dad, David Weinberg.” Of all the people I’ve known in my 60 years on Earth, I’ve never met a person I admired more and miss as much. David Weinberg died July 23, 1983. He was 67.
When my father retired from his job in the Post Office in 1971, my mother and his friends threw him a party which they called “This Is Your Life, David Weinberg.” At the time, I was working on my Ph.D. in Chicago and was not able to get off teaching to fly back to New Jersey for the celebration. Here’s what I sent to be read at the celebration: (more…)
