funeral Archives - Pamela Jay Gottfried

In Loving Memory of Eugene Friedman

May 17, 2022May 13, 2022 by Pamela Gottfried

“We live for seventy years, or eighty, if we are strong. Teach us how short our time is; let us know it in the depths of our souls.” I first met Eugene 32 years ago, when David and I were dating and I had completed 2 years of rabbinical school. I still remember him telling … Read more

Walk around the Block

February 14, 2019 by Pamela Gottfried

“Our life is a walk in the night, we know not how great the distance to the dawn that awaits us. And the path is strewn with stumbling blocks and our bodies are grown tyrannous with weeping yet we lift our feet. We lift our feet.” —Rachel Kadish in The Weight of Ink, p. 51 … Read more