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CHOICE SPRING TRAINING
More than 50 years later,
The Chosen remains infl uential.

FEBRUARY 14, 2019 / ADAR 9, 5779
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Volume 239
000 Number 44
0 Published Weekly Since 1887
Widow of
9/11 Pilot
Shares Life
Lessons SELAH MAYA ZIGHELBOIM | JE STAFF
MIRIAM HORROCKS-ISENBERG’S
poise in front of the Chabad of the Main
Line audience suggests she has told her
story countless times, but when she men-
tions her late husband, her voice still
breaks. “I had married a man named Michael
Horrocks,” Horrocks-Isenberg said. “We
had been married for almost 12-and-a-
half years, and during that time we had
had two beautiful children. On Sept. 11 of
2001, Michael was taken from us.”
Michael Horrocks was the fi rst offi -
cer on United Airlines Flight 175 when
al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked the plane and
crashed it into the World Trade Center in
New York City, killing everyone on board.

Horrocks-Isenberg isn’t Jewish, but
Rabbi Mendy Cohen of Chabad of the
Main Line said he invited her to speak
to the audience that evening on Feb. 5
because of how powerful her story is.

“It wasn’t a story of survival,” Cohen
said. “It was a story of thriving, not just
Blaze Bernstein (far right) with his family
Photos courtesy of the Bernstein family
Bernstein’s Death Still
Resonates a Year Later
JESSE BERNSTEIN | JE STAFF
BLAZE BERNSTEIN, a student at the
University of Pennsylvania, was 19 when
he was allegedly murdered by a high school
classmate named Samuel Woodward.

Woodward, 21, was later found to
be in possession of materials associated
with the Atomwaff en Division, a neo-
Nazi hate group that encouraged violence
against Jews and gay people. Bernstein,
who had been out for only a short time,
was stabbed multiple times, and buried
in a shallow grave in Borrego Park in Los
Angeles. His body was uncovered aft er a
massive search.

Th at was the fi rst week of January
2018. One year later, those who knew
See 9/11, Page 13
See Bernstein, Page 12
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