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FURMAN Jerome E. Furman, Esq. on October 19, 2020.

Beloved husband of the late Peggy (nee
Schaller); Loving father of Dr. Richard (Sue)
Furman, Fred (Ellen) Furman and Ted (Ruth)
Furman; Devoted grandfather of Debbie,
Brad, Ali (Jay), Zach (Melisa) and the late Mi-
chael; Adoring great-grandfather of Abraham
Jerome and Nathan Michael. He was 101 yrs.

old. Services and interment were private.

Contributions in his memory may be made to
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
www.jdrf.org. GOLDSTEINS' ROSENBERG'S
RAPHAEL-SACKS www.goldsteinsfuneral.com
KRAVITZ Herbert Kravitz on October 16, 2020. Hus-
band of the late Anita. Father of Jacqueline
Kravitz, Harvey Kravitz and Judith (Theodore)
Olds. Grandfather of Katherine Olds, Jacob
Olds and Thomas Kravitz. Contributions in
his memory may be made to the Ann's
Choice Benevolence Fund, 31000 Ann's
Choice Way, Warminster PA 18974.

GOLDSTEINS’ ROSENBERG’S
RAPHAEL SACKS
www.goldsteinsfuneral.com KREMER SASLOW
Judith Kremer Saslow of Bryn Mawr died on
Oct. 17, 2020. She was the beloved wife of
Edwin, loving mother of Beth (Neil) and Alan,
and fun-loving mom-mom to Brian and Mat-
thew. She was the devoted daughter of Mar-
tin Kremer, Esq. and Lillie Barash, and sister
to Dr. Joel Kremer (Sara) and the late Merle
Kremer. She was a talented artist, teacher,
business owner, and travel agent who gener-
ously shared her love, passions and expert-
ise with numerous clients, students, family,
and friends. Contributions in her memory can
be made to The Montgomery County Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 19
E. Ridge Pike, PO Box 222, Conshohocken,
PA 19428-0222.

JOSEPH LEVINE and SONS
www.levinefuneral.com LITT
Irwin Litt, M.D., of Princeton, New Jersey,
passed away in August of 2020 at the age of
83. Irv was born, raised and educated in
Philadelphia, attending South Philadelphia
High School for Boys, and completing his un-
dergraduate and medical training at Temple
University. He interned in Brooklyn, New
York and was subsequently commissioned as
a Captain in the United States Air Force,
serving as a General Medical Officer. He re-
turned to Temple University to complete his
residency in radiology and a fellowship in in-
terventional radiology, and soon after joined
what is now the University Radiology Group
in New Jersey. Irv practiced with this group
for his entire career, specializing in mammo-
graphy and dedicating himself to women’s
health for decades. He mentored medical
students and residents and worked tirelessly
on behalf of his patients. He loved his pro-
fession. Irv lived a full life with his wife of 57
years, Barbara. His three children and their
spouses as well as eight grandchildren
brought him much joy. He loved them all. In
his free time, he was a music enthusiast with
a passion for jazz, blues, classical music and
opera. He loved theater and visiting New
York City, as well as travel, always with his
trusty camera by his side. Irv was an avid
reader of newspapers, magazines, medical
journals and books. For years he audited
classes at Princeton University and later at-
tended classes at the Senior Resource Cen-
ter, and he enjoyed spending time with his
friends in the Old Guard and 55 Plus social
groups. Private funeral services were held
due to COVID. Charitable contributions in
Irv’s memory may be sent to The Jewish
Center in Princeton www.thejewishcenter.org
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ROSEN Donald Rosen on October 18, 2020; of
Haverford, PA. Husband of Roni Rosen (nee
Sachs) and the late Debra Rosen (nee Jaffe);
Father of David (Terri), Lynne (Steve), Julie
(The late Ira), Daniel and Donna (Mike); Step-
Father of Blair (Lance) and Brett (Betsy);
Grandfather of Ian, Jack, Jonah, Nina, Ruby,
Josiah, Beau, Brayden, Parker, Levi, Ty and
Violet; Great Grandfather of Zion. The family
respectfully requests contributions in lieu of
flowers be made to Abramson Senior Care or
American Technion Institute. His legacy will
live on in the hearts of all those whose lives
he has touched.

JOSEPH LEVINE AND SONS
www.levinefuneral.com SKLAR
Edith Sklar (nee Gordon) of Paul's Run, Phil-
adelphia, PA passed away on October 16,
2020. She was 95 years old. Beloved mother
of Paul Sofian (Alice Farber), Leigh Lieber-
man (Lewis) and the late Albert Sofian. Be-
loved stepmother of Sherry Sklar Berman
(Mark). Wife of the late Edward Sofian and
the late Raymond Sklar. Grandmother of Jef-
frey Sofian (Giselle), Mark Lieberman, Mi-
chael Lieberman (Laura), Todd Berman
(Kristy) and Jenna Berman. Great Grand-
mother of Naomi Lieberman and Shaydon
Berman. Sister of Evelyn Katz and the late Eli
Gordon. Interment Roosevelt Memorial Park.

Contributions may be made to the American
Diabetes Association.

GOLDSTEINS’ ROSENBERG’S
RAPHAEL SACKS
www.goldsteinsfuneral.com LEVIN
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MEMORIALS SORKIN
DANCING WITH DAD
Dedicated to Two Wonderful Dads: PAUL
SURDEN and SOLOMON Z. GOLDBERG
Especially for LESLIE SURDEN
Stephen Sorkin, Oct. 17, 2020 of Bala Cyn-
wyd, PA; husband of Ann (nee Finer), father
of Edward "Ted" Sorkin, James "Jim" Sorkin
(Karin) and Elizabeth "Liz" Sorkin. Brother of
Susan Yermish and the late Rochelle Picker.

Loving grandfather of Sophia, Mint and Wit.

Private graveside services were held at
Roosevelt Mem. Park. Contributions in his
memory may be made to Philabundance or
Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia.

JOSEPH LEVINE and SONS
www.levinefuneral.com WEINBERG
Dr. Paul Weinberg, 74, of Baltimore, MD,
passed away on Thursday, October 15, 2020.

He is survived by his beloved wife, Dr. Linda
Weinberg (nee Levin); daughter, Sarah Wein-
berg (Ricky) Gratz; siblings, Marsha Flager,
and Michael (Michelle) Weinberg; and grand-
children, Julia, Rena, and Eve. He was prede-
ceased by his adored son, Joshua Martin
Weinberg; and parents, Alan and Claryne
Weinberg. Services are private. Please omit
flowers. Contributions in his memory may be
sent to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia,
ATTN: Dr. Paul Weinberg Distinguished
Teaching Award Fund, or the Joshua Martin
Weinberg Memorial Fund of Kellman Brown
Academy (856-679-2929).

SOL LEVINSON & BROS. FUNERAL HOME
www.sollevinson.com ZITOMER
Norma Zitomer (nee Faerman), passed away
on October 16, 2020. Wife of the late Donald
Zitomer. Mother of Michelle Trachtenberg
“Mikki Zitomer” and the late Sheldon
Zitomer. Sister of Annette Kravitz. Grand-
mother of Jordan Trachtenberg, Eric
Trachtenberg (Jen Goldman), Benjamin (Sue)
Zitomer and Nicholas (Karen) Zitomer. Great
Grandmother of Avery and Jake Trachten-
berg, and Sam and Will Zitomer. Longtime
companion of the late Sol Waxman, and also
remembered by his daughters Ronnie Sheck-
man and Diane Schwab, and their children.

Contributions in her memory may be made to
Alzheimer’s Association, www.alz.org/delval.

GOLDSTEINS’ ROSENBERG’S
RAPHAEL-SACKS www.goldsteinsfuneral.com
I wish I could dance
With my dad once again,
Just one more time
He was so happy then.

I wish we could dance
Oh I wish it so much,
Just one more time
Dad and I, still in touch.

I wish I could dance
With my dad so admired,
Just one more time
He won't be too tired.

I wish we could dance
One more time, dad and I,
To hear his great laughter
As we danced right on by.

I wish we could dance
For I so long to see,
The dad that I love
Still dancing with me.

I wish we could dance
Dearest dad, I so miss,
Just one more time
To just reminisce.

I wish I could dance
With my dad, oh so clever,
For that moment in time
I'd be grateful forever.

I wish I could dance
With my dad, who knows when?
For I know he'll be happy
When we dance once again.

©M. Sokolow
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memory of your
loved one …
LUBORSKY Harris T. Levin, on August 17,2020. Beloved
husband of Marci (nee KATZ) for over 41
years. Loving father of Jhanna, Joshua Hant-
man, Jamie (Matt Disturnell), Jordan (fi-
ancee Kaitlin Ryan). Adoring pop-pop to
Kenny Faro. Brother of Lee(Sharron) Ser-
vices were held at Washington Crossing Me-
morial National Cemetary. Arrangements by
Goldstein’s Rosenberg's Raphael-Sacks.

DEATH NOTICES
Lise Luborsky, October 18, 2020 of Phil-
adelphia, PA. Beloved daughter of the late
Lester and Ruth (nee Samson) Luborsky; lov-
ing sister of Ellen Luborsky and Peter Lubor-
sky; adoring aunt of Miranda, Alex (Shana),
David, and Marie. Services and interment
were private. Contributions in her memory
may be made to the National Audubon Soci-
ety audubon.org, Temple Beth Zion-Beth Is-
rael bzbi.org, or the Vineyard Conservation
Society vineyardconservation.org
JOSEPH LEVINE and SONS
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Dr. Howard Popky on October 21, 2020 of
Royersford, PA; beloved husband of the late
Sheila (nee Abrams); loving father of Bruce
(Heather) Popky, Lisa (Stephen) Kullman, Mi-
chael (Cassie) Popky and the late Jay (Kira)
Popky; adoring grandfather of seven. In lieu
of flowers, contributions in his memory may
be made to Temple Brith Achim in King of
Prussia. JOSEPH LEVINE AND SONS
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overseas and hurt American
workers. Pre-COVID-19, Trump
brought back American facto-
ries and generated nearly a
half-million manufacturing jobs.

African-American, Latino and
Hispanic-Americans, Asian-
Americans, veterans, women and
youth employment were histori-
cally high.

Trump advocates expanded,
free market health care for all,
where pre-existing conditions are
covered. Veterans’ health care now
has choice and enhanced quality.

Biden wants government-run,
single payer health care for all. His
tax plan will increase taxes and
delay economic recovery. Biden’s
for open borders, and giving
health care and other benefits
Barasch Continued from Page 23
She made fierce friendships
with people of all ages and
enjoyed hosting in her apart-
ment, foisting chicken soup,
braised veal and her political
views onto her guests. Like
all of us, she would lose this
freedom and independence
in quarantine; unlike us, she
didn’t have the assumption of
many decades of her life to
regain it.

But she didn’t succumb to
gloom. She had the constitu-
tion of a survivor, a word that
takes on another meaning
when paired with the histor-
ical circumstances of her life.

Interestingly, throughout our
childhood, it was my grandfa-
ther’s story we focused on more,
perhaps because it was gendered
or simply because his story
fit better into the well-known
Holocaust narratives. And
indeed, it is common to define
a “Holocaust survivor” as
someone who endured concen-
tration camps as my grandfather
did. Compared to my grandfa-
ther, Oma’s story seemed almost
privileged: Her parents and
sibling lived.

JEWISHEXPONENT.COM to persons entering illegally,
pandering to wealthy American
hypocrites, bleeding American
resources dry and betraying
hard-working American families.

Trump took swift action
about COVID-19, closing our
borders to flights from China
and Europe, despite Biden and
others calling him xenophobic
and racist. In a coordinated
operation not seen since World
War II, Trump rallied American
industry and government to work
together rapidly to manufac-
ture and distribute ventilators,
personal protection equipment,
therapeutics and vaccines.

Democratic governors made
bad decisions about COVID-19,
and this summer’s riots that killed
too many. They and the media
wrongly blame Trump, mischar-
acterizing and misstating facts
and putting politics above the
American people.

Still, Trump has worked
tirelessly for all Americans
despite the relentless wrath of
Democrats and much of the
corrupt political establishment.

He’s endured the hostility and
dishonesty of the mainstream
and social media, including
mass censorship by Big Tech.

Sadly, today’s Democratic
Party has dangerously tilted
anti-Semitic and anti-Israel.

Trump is neither. There’s never
been a better friend of Israel
and the Jewish community in
the White House, and a second
Trump term will only bring a
closer alliance between the U.S.

and Israel, and an even stronger
U.S. Trump deserves our vote. l
As we grew older, however,
we learned more and more
about my grandmother’s story.

And even putting aside the
insane and difficult details of
her displacement, the fact of
being a Jew in Europe at that
time makes her a survivor —
which is to say she survived.

In a different life, I like to
imagine Oma would have made
an excellent diplomat or foreign
dignitary. She is a language savant
who speaks eight languages:
English, French, German, Italian,
Romanian, Hungarian, Hebrew
and Yiddish. One quarantine
dinner, when all we wanted to
talk about was “the numbers,”
Cuomo and PPE on repeat, trying
to understand what the hell was
going on, Oma wanted to discuss
language — and particularly, how
pitiful it was that we Americans
could barely speak two. This
needling, in the time of COVID-
19, was refreshing.

Another time, she gently
suggested my husband shave his
beard and less gently suggested
that I might brush my hair once
in a while. She did not under-
stand my droopy sweatpants
or the tie-dye trend, as if she
could alone predict the fallacy
in the idea that sorbet colors all
bleeding together onto a T-shirt
could negate the hundreds of
thousands of people who have
died. We shared one crucial thing
in common: We couldn’t believe
we were living through this. A
little over two months into it,
shortly after George Floyd was
murdered and protests erupted
across the country, she looked
at me and said, “This may be
the craziest thing I’ve ever lived
through.” After what she’d been
through, it was surprising to
hear. But it was also strangely
validating to hear someone with
so much perspective express
that none of this was close to
normal. Though not sentimental,
another thing she said was, “I’m so
happy I got to know you.” Though
we’d been close my whole life,
we gained a new understanding
that comes with living with one
another, observing each other’s
rhythms up close without a place
to go or anything to do, under the
specter of a global health crisis.

I got to know her, too, and in
many ways, her life-must-go-on,
Jewish survivor ethos carried me
through. l
William Wanger is chair of the PA/
SNJ chapter of the Republican
Jewish Coalition.

Emily Barasch is a writer based in
the New York area. This originally
appeared in Alma.

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The Board of Trustees of Abramson Senior Care record with
sorrow the passing of their esteemed colleague and friend
Donald Rosen
whose commitment to philanthropy benefited the seniors served
by Abramson Senior Care, and whose life serves as an example
of kindness and generosity to the entire community.

Don joined Abramson Senior Care’s Board of Trustees in 2016.

Long before joining the Board, and dating back to 2003, Don and
his wife, Roni, were generous supporters of Abramson’s mission.

They were also among the very first supporters of Abramson’s
Birnhak Transitional Care at Lankenau Medical Center. In 2018,
Don and Roni served as Gala Chairs and in 2019 served on our
Gala Committee. Most recently, they contributed to our COVID
Crisis Campaign.

Don brought energy, passion and compassion to life. His
philanthropy and caring heart reached countless individuals and
causes. In addition to his generosity, Don will most definitely be
remembered for his “zest for life.” His legacy serves as a shining
example of the importance of celebrating life’s gifts and joys,
even in the midst of challenging times.

Abramson Senior Care and our entire Jewish community were
truly fortunate to have been the beneficiary of Don’s time,
leadership and enduring tzedakah.

To his wife, Roni; children David (Terri), Lynne (Steve), Julie (the
late Ira), Daniel, Donna (Mike), Blair (Lance) and Brett (Betsy);
his grandchildren and great-grandchild; and all who mourn his
passing, the Board of Trustees of Abramson Senior Care offer
this expression of profound sympathy. May they find solace
in the knowledge that his dedication, generosity and good
works will serve as a living tribute to him and will benefit future
generations. Lorraine Drobny
Board Chair
Carol A. Irvine
President and CEO
OCTOBER 29, 2020
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