Friday, July 04, 2008

Victims From July 2 Attack


I'm out of practice for this minhag - something I did almost every week (day?) back a few years ago - keep track of every single victim of the Islamic terror against Jews.

The terror attack on Wednesday was in Jerusalem, in a location I often was in. The three victims:

Batsheva Unterman (33), Jean Relevy (68) and Elizabeth (Lili) Goren-Friedman (58).

Read this about Mrs. Unterman, but prepare your heart to be broken:
Batsheva was born in Israel to Rivka and James Lubenstein, a couple who immigrated from Holland, and was a resident of Jerusalem's Rehavia neighborhood. She married London-born Ido Unterman, whose grandfather, Isser Yehuda Unterman, was chief rabbi of Liverpool and Tel Aviv before he became Israel's chief rabbi between 1964 and 1973.

For years, the couple underwent fertility treatment until their only child, Efrat, was born six months ago. Batsheva had worked for years in a religious kingergarten in Jerusalem's Har Homa neighborhood. "Neither of them gave up on their dream to have children," said Meira Schwartz, a family friend. "Before Efrat was born, she treated all the kindergarten children like they were her own. She was a graceful kindergarten teacher with the utmost patience for each and every child."

Batsheva Unterman was buried was buried at the Har HaMenuchot cemetery at Givat Shaul in Jerusalem. She is survived by her husband, Ido, and daughter, Efrat.

2 comments:

mnuez said...

Ah, a fellow Jew for Obama. Nice to meet ya. Methinks you might find this comment thread to be of some interest (click for comments at the bottom of the page) http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2008/07/jerusalem-terrorist-attack-and-wages-of.html

Anyhow, as I said, nice to meet ya.

mnuez
www.mnuez.blogspot.com

JC said...

Thanks mnuez, there are a few of us Jews for Obama around.