His pride in the United States was coupled with his Orthodox Jewish faith, although not too deeply observed, having been exposed to a more secular socialist leaning Jewish culture through the "Workmens' Circle" and by reading the "Daily Forward" the leading secular Yiddish newspaper in the United States during the great immigration of Eastern European Jews prior to World War I and subsequently served the needs of that generation until it more or less died out in the later part of the twentieth century. ... According to one of her very unreliable stories, she claimed to have had booked pas...

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Since we lived in New York, every single summer my family and I would fly out to Arizona for two weeks to escape the awful humidity that occurred on Long Island. ... She must have died in her sleep, which is probably the best way to go. ...

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