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Fire Kills 7 Children
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In tearful eulogy, father affirms faith in God.
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G
abriel Sassoon, the father of
seven Orthodox Jewish chil-
dren killed in a Brooklyn
house fire, told hundreds of mourn-
ers at their funeral service Sunday in
New York that the only way he could
survive the tragedy was through
The Sassoon family
"complete, utter and total surrender"
to his religious beliefs.
ence.
"My children, they were so pure," he said.
Rabbi Mon Deri, a family friend, arrived
"God Almighty took seven roses. He took
at the airport in Israel to receive the victims'
my children and my future grandchildren,
father, Gabriel.
maybe 70 or 80 of them, their smiles. To
Deri spoke of the decision to bury the
you, my God, I give my all. My soul, my all."
children, 5-year-old Yaakov, 6-year-old
The bodies of his seven children were
Sarah, 8-year-old Moshe, 10-year-old
brought to Israel on Monday, where they
Yehoshua, 11-year-old Rivkah, 12-year-old
were laid to rest in Jerusalem's Givat Shaul
David, and 16-year-old Eliane, in Jerusalem.
Cemetery.
All these years he talked about returning
The father said, while fighting back tears, to Israel [from New York]. Their home was
"They were such naive children. I had no
being built in Jerusalem:'
idea there were tears like these. Seven roses
Eliyahu Sherman, another family friend,
so beautiful and pure"
said the family came from Japan. "Gabriel's
The children's mother, Gayle, and the
father was one of the important Jews in
only surviving child, Siporah, 15, are
Japan, and his sons came to Israel to study
still hospitalized in critical condition at a
in the yeshivahs. They donated millions of
Brooklyn medical center.
dollars to a variety of organizations in Israel
The blaze, which erupted just before
and abroad. All of their time was dedicated
12:30 a.m. Saturday, is believed to have
to teaching Torah and the mitzvahs:'
been started accidentally by a hot plate in
the home's kitchen. At the time of the fire,
The Jerusalem Post contributed to this report.
the father was away at a religious confer-
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W
e all read about acts of terror-
ism and mayhem in today's
world. It seems that heinous
acts seem to be a daily affair. Forty-nine
years ago, there was such an act in Detroit,
one that rocked the city's Jewish commu-
nity.
On March 11, 1966, Rabbi Morris Adler
passed away after 27 days in a coma. A
mentally ill college student had shot him
on Feb. 11 as he stood on the bimah at
Congregation Shaarey Zedek in Southfield.
Adler was one of the most prominent
rabbis in Detroit, a rabbi who advocated
compassion and understanding for all
faiths, races and people, and touched
many lives. He was an activist in the Metro
Detroit community and a strong Zionist.
An estimated 15,000 people attempted
to attend his funeral — not all could get
into the service due to traffic jams that
occurred.
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munity. It was ironic that the life of a
most compassionate man was taken by
a senseless act. The Detroit Jewish News
had the unpleasant task of covering this
sad story.
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