The mighty have fallen: A tribute to community legend Philip Zucker

The mighty have fallen: A tribute to community legend Philip Zucker

March 21, 2017 Opinion, Perspectives

As my family marks the shloshim for my father-in-law Philip Zucker, we remember a loving father, grandfather and great-grandfather; an assiduous scholar and Torah reader who knew the Torah by heart, and taught bar-mitzvah to thousands.

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