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the loss of a man who adored his fam-
stock market while watching their
daughters play sports. "My guess is,
ily as much as his many friends adored
knowing Allen, he wasn't playing with
him. Tenenbaum had found his life's
large sums of money," Berman said,
work in unlikely places. He was a
adding that the riskiest thing
Jewish grocery storeowner in a down-
Tenenbaum did was jog with the flow
at-the-heels black neighborhood, an
of traffic instead of against it.
Ashkenazi Jew who led a Sephardic
Tenenbaum was health conscious,
synagogue.
say friends. He ran three or four miles
Stunned customers stopped at the
a day, ate lots of fruit and vegetables
Great Savings Grocery in the after-
and shunned junk food.
math of the shooting to post their
Last Friday afternoon, Baumrind
condolences on white paper taped
was one of the men
outside the store.
Below: Attending Sunday's helping ease the casket
Tenenbaum was a man,
memorial service for
of his golfing buddy into
friends and employees
Allen
Tenenbaum are,
the red earth. Debra
have said, who would
from left, his daughter
Tenenbaum stopped the
gladly extend credit to
Brittany, wife Debra, and pallbearers to press a kiss
customers or fix a sand-
daughter Megan.
on the simple wood box.
wich for someone who
Rabbi S. Robert Ichay
was hungry.
of Or VeShalom told the mourners
Born in Atlanta, Tenenbaum gradu-
that it was his job to comfort the
ated in 1964 from the Greenfield
grieving. But, he said, his voice catch-
Hebrew Academy, the traditional
ing, he wished someone could comfort
Jewish day school where two of his
him. Despite the- 99-degree tempera-
daughters are students. He had served
ture, so many mourners attended the
on Or VeShalom's board for about 10
funeral, space ran out in the condo-
years and been a vice president for sev-
lence book. Lines formed for people
eral years.
to toss a shovel full of dirt into the
During the confusion and frantic
grave, a custom performed using the
evening hours of July 26, when it
shovel's back.
was unclear who was living and who
Many of the same people returned
had died, friends and congregants
Sunday for a memorial service and
already were offering support. Many
wept as daughters Brittany, 13, and
had recognized Debra Tenenbaum
Megan, 11, read Psalm 30 in Hebrew
on television after a station aired
and English: "Though weeping
harrowing footage of her anxiously
endures for a night, joy comes in the
seeking her husband, who had not
morning." Son Scott, 3, who used to
answered repeated calls to his cell

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phone. That night, authorities con-
firmed that Tenenbaum was among
those day traders killed at All-Tech.
Tenenbaum had opened an All-
Tech day-trading account in June
1998, said Franklin Ogele, All-Tech's
associate general counsel. "He had
lots of business interests," said Dr.
Jeff Baumrind, a dentist who golfed
with Tenenbaum and considered
him his best friend. "It was just a lit-
tle thing to try to make some
money.
Steve Berman, a long-time friend
and running buddy, said he and
Tenenbaum occasionally discussed the

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scoot onto his father's lap during ser-
vices, did not attend.
Debra Tenenbaum's brother-in-law,
Terry Tenenbaum, recounted a heart-
rending moment at Shabbat dinner
last week, just hours after the funeral.
Sobbing and hugging her children,
Mrs. Tenenbaum asked him to recite
the blessing a father traditionally
makes over his children.
"That same faith that has sustained
our people through millennia of
tragedy and sorrow, that same faith is
embedded rock-strong in Debra,"
Terry Tenenbaum said. I

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