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…)
More than 200 deceased Jewish U.S. World War II veterans were honored on Veterans Day on plaques dedicated at the Gutterman-Musicant Funeral Home in Hackensack, N.J., with 80 family members and friends in attendance.
According to a report, many were World War II veterans who were fortunate enough to survive combat, return home and lead productive lives and have died only recently.
Names of some of those honored and quotes from the event, as reported in the Record: (more…)
