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Jewish World Review March 1, 2002/ 16 Adar 5762
A Bris for a 9-11 Baby
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THE cover of the Feb. 25 edition of
People magazine featured a
poignant photo of 31 widows from
9-11, and their 32 babies (including
twins), that were born into this world
fatherless. As JWR's Michelle
Malkin writes, each of them had
fathers who happily anticipated their
arrival until terrorists "took daddy
after daddy after daddy away."
The newest baby, born Feb. 14, too
late for inclusion in People, is Jason
Andrew Zucker (Yechiel Chaim
Zalman ben Chaim Zalman), 7
pounds, 8 ounces, child of Erica
Zucker and Andrew Zucker. Andrew,
an attorney for Harris Beach on the 85th floor of the North Tower of
the World Trade Center, was helping to rescue fellow workers and
went to Heaven without a trace.
"The baby and Erica are doing great, thank G-d," says Cheryl Shames,
Andrew's sister, who lives in North Massapequa, L.I. "He's adorable.
Jason Andrew is a big mazel tov. I've been crying a lot since the baby
was born. … The bris was sad for me, seeing how others had to take
the spot where my brother should have been." There were tears, "not
the way a bris is supposed to be. An important someone was missing;
the abba, my brother."
The traditional language of the bris milah ceremony was all the more
haunting in its evocation of the father: "May his father rejoice... Then I
passed by you and saw you downtrodden in your blood, and I said to
you, 'In your blood, live! ... For the sake of the fathers may You save
their
By Jonathan Mark
On Nov. 1, we published the haunting story of Andrew Zucker, a JWR reader and 9-11 victim, who, less than a month before he was to die in the Twin Towers, began an e-mail campaign calling the world's attention to the increasing danger of the Taliban. Here is the follow-up.
JWR contributor Jonathan Mark is Associate Editor of
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