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Moser Nefesh for Torah the race, he’d split the winnings Goldenbergs lived just blocks from
The JA article that was responsible for with him. The horse won. When the each other and were both very active in
bringing this family together started off man came to Peretz prepared to the Southeast Hebrew Congregation.”
by saying that many assume Torah give him half of the money, Peretz
Judaism came to these shores in the asked him when he had bet on the Judy’s daughter, Anna, and her
aftermath of the Holocaust. In fact, horse. The man told Peretz he fiancé, Peter, also enjoyed the reunion.
hundreds of our ancestors stubbornly placed the bet on Saturday. Peretz “Many of these people I have never
and courageously fought to lay the told him he couldn’t take the seen before,” said Anna, who hopes to
foundation of Torah Judaism in money. My grandparents certainly keep up with family members, perhaps
America in the early part of the 20th could have used the money. Life on What’s App. “It’s nice being part of
century, exhibiting extraordinary wasn’t easy for them, but I think of a larger community. My parents are
mesirus nefesh (self-sacrifice) and them as the richest people in the both only children and my grandpar-
devotion to Torah. The Scheinerman world to have had such integrity. ents, unfortunately, passed away many
family was one of a few “illustrious fam- years ago, so having all of these people
ilies” that were profiled in the magazine Reunion Reflections in our lives is really special.”
for their loyalty to Torah Judaism, As Judy Peres, a Sugar cousin from
despite living at a time when there were Washington D.C., shared with me: “The For some cousins, like Lynn
few, if any, yeshivos or day schools or reunion was fabulous. The last time I Neustadter of Brooklyn, New York, the
amenities like kosher food. saw some of my relatives, unfortunate- reunion was a venue for family discov-
ly, was at a shiva house. Being the baby eries. “I found out at the reunion that
A family story in the article, told by of the baby, I remember seeing all these my granddaughter, Monica, (a great-
Fagie Rosen (nee Scheinerman), a people when I was a little girl and hear- great-granddaughter of Peretz
granddaughter of Peretz and Annie ing about all my mother’s cousins. It Scheinerman) is friends, “coincidental-
Scheinerman, demonstrates the was really special to see them again ly,” with her fourth cousin Sam, Gloria’s
Scheinerman family’s devotion to and to look at the old photos we all grandson and a great-great-grandson of
Torah: brought. I grew up going to my Great Aunt Rose. They found each other in
Aunt Rose and Great Uncle Mutel’s Israel!
An irreligious man who was friend- home. The Sugars and the
ly with my grandfather bet on a “We ate, we spoke, we mingled, we
horse and told him if the horse won got to see people we haven’t seen for-
ever,” Lynn continues. “We saw pictures
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The JA article that was responsible for with him. The horse won. When the each other and were both very active in
bringing this family together started off man came to Peretz prepared to the Southeast Hebrew Congregation.”
by saying that many assume Torah give him half of the money, Peretz
Judaism came to these shores in the asked him when he had bet on the Judy’s daughter, Anna, and her
aftermath of the Holocaust. In fact, horse. The man told Peretz he fiancé, Peter, also enjoyed the reunion.
hundreds of our ancestors stubbornly placed the bet on Saturday. Peretz “Many of these people I have never
and courageously fought to lay the told him he couldn’t take the seen before,” said Anna, who hopes to
foundation of Torah Judaism in money. My grandparents certainly keep up with family members, perhaps
America in the early part of the 20th could have used the money. Life on What’s App. “It’s nice being part of
century, exhibiting extraordinary wasn’t easy for them, but I think of a larger community. My parents are
mesirus nefesh (self-sacrifice) and them as the richest people in the both only children and my grandpar-
devotion to Torah. The Scheinerman world to have had such integrity. ents, unfortunately, passed away many
family was one of a few “illustrious fam- years ago, so having all of these people
ilies” that were profiled in the magazine Reunion Reflections in our lives is really special.”
for their loyalty to Torah Judaism, As Judy Peres, a Sugar cousin from
despite living at a time when there were Washington D.C., shared with me: “The For some cousins, like Lynn
few, if any, yeshivos or day schools or reunion was fabulous. The last time I Neustadter of Brooklyn, New York, the
amenities like kosher food. saw some of my relatives, unfortunate- reunion was a venue for family discov-
ly, was at a shiva house. Being the baby eries. “I found out at the reunion that
A family story in the article, told by of the baby, I remember seeing all these my granddaughter, Monica, (a great-
Fagie Rosen (nee Scheinerman), a people when I was a little girl and hear- great-granddaughter of Peretz
granddaughter of Peretz and Annie ing about all my mother’s cousins. It Scheinerman) is friends, “coincidental-
Scheinerman, demonstrates the was really special to see them again ly,” with her fourth cousin Sam, Gloria’s
Scheinerman family’s devotion to and to look at the old photos we all grandson and a great-great-grandson of
Torah: brought. I grew up going to my Great Aunt Rose. They found each other in
Aunt Rose and Great Uncle Mutel’s Israel!
An irreligious man who was friend- home. The Sugars and the
ly with my grandfather bet on a “We ate, we spoke, we mingled, we
horse and told him if the horse won got to see people we haven’t seen for-
ever,” Lynn continues. “We saw pictures
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