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Harav Yuel Ziendel Zagravitz [1820-1895 estimated]. Jenny's great, great, great, great grandfather.
Harav Yosafe Hadesman, the Scribe, [1845-1907], son-in-law of Harav Yuel Zendel. Born in Strykov, Poland 1845, died in Chicago 1907.
Buried at Waldheim at the Western Star Gate, row 16.
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Edward Friedman [1946- ],
High Holidays, 5770.
Miriam Leah Hadesman, daughter of Rabbi Yosafe Hadesman, and her husband Rabbi Nachman Perlman [1861-1966].
Max Gerber, in the 1960's in St Louis. Born on Purim in Prushnitz, Poland in 1886, died in St Louis in 1967.
Jack Friedman, Jenny's grandfather [1911-1995], received the Purple Heart medal in the battle of Iwo Jima in World War II. A singer and entertainer, he taught Jenny how to "speak to the last row" to improve her speech.
Jack Friedman, Belle Friedman, Michael Friedman and Edward Friedman, 3118 West Palmer Square, Chicago, '47.
Edward Friedman [1946 - ], Portrait of Jenny's Dad as a young man.
Jenny at her backyard flagstone patio by the pool in Fort Myers!
On Sundays, we lived at Fort Myers Beach!
Jenny & Dad at Busch Gardens in Tampa, Florida.
Jenny in her gymnastics class, Fort Myers, Florida, 1983. On the front page of the newspaper, on her birthday!
Dressed up for the Edison Pageant of Light Junior Parade marching with her gymnastics class, 1983.
Jenny in the newspaper on Fathers Day, 1986.
Jenny at her Bat Mitzvah, Temple Beth Tikvah, Hoffman
Estates, Illinois
October, '91.
Jenny was ambidextrous and double jointed, which made her a terrific dancer!
Jenny with her Little City volunteer, Kelly Sabens Puestow.
Elena Danielle Morris, of Lehigh, Florida, Jenny's godsister
Helping Little City with fundraising!
Helping Little City with fundraising!
Helping Little City with fundraising!
Jenny was an expert swimmer having learned at age one!
Jenny's "head shot" for her Sears commercial.
Article about her award winning Kosher home video.
Jenny standing at Lawana Barton's unmarked grave in Homewood, Illinois,
in advance of her successful fundraising campaign to buy a headstone for
Lawana.
Visiting Jewish prisoners at Dwight Correctional
Center, Dwight, Illinois.
Jenny visiting great great Aunt Hannah Kabaker [1905-2003]
at the Buckingham nursing home, Chicago. Jenny was the only one who realized
Hannah could communicate, by touch.
Graduation day at Palatine high school, Class of '98; Jenny with her best
friend from gym class, Danielle Burns. Danielle called Jenny 'My Hero'
in her essay at school.
Pensive moment at the beach at Northwestern University. Notice Jenny is wearing a mens shirt, buttoning from left to right. She loved to wear my shirts!
Researchers Francis Collins, NIH, Erle Lander, UK, Andre Rosenthal, Germany and David Patterson, US, have mapped chromosome 21. "The map may … perhaps develop drugs to treat [Down syndrome]". Chicago Sun Times, May 9, 2000.
Dr. Karen Kuehl, Childrens National Medical Center, Washington, DC, states "Heart repairs can wear out … about 20 years after childhood surgery". "People … thought they were going to be fine. In fact, we don't know that". Chicago Sun Times, January 24, 2006.
Jenny's Dad, Edward Friedman,
at the Chicago Center for Torah & Chesed
Dinner, May, '06.
Kabakoff - Friedman family reunion in Memphis, Tennessee, October, '06.
Torah dedication ceremony pictures from Scottsdale, Arizona, December, '06. Read the book which describes how Jenny's death miraculously led to finding our long lost relative, Rabbi Shmuel Moseson, the Scribe, who was thereupon commissioned by Uncle Mike Friedman to write the new Torah.
Jenny's Uncle Michael Friedman and Dad, Edward Friedman.
From left, nephew Rabbi Ari Shoshan, rabbi of congregation Ahavas Torah, Scottsdale; cousin Rabbi Shmuel Moseson the Scribe, who wrote the Torah, Yerushalayim; Edward Friedman, Chicago; Michael Friedman, Skokie; and Ari Weiner, Chicago
Rabbi Donyel Moscovitz, Chief Lubavitch Rabbi of Illinois, with Michael Friedman.
Dancing in the street on Ludlow with the Torah, carried by Edward Friedman.
Dancing in the Torah procession, cousin David Goldberg, Los Angeles; Michael Friedman; and cousin Phil Cantor, Los Angeles.
Writing a letter in the new Torah, Edward Friedman with cousin Rabbi Shmuel Moseson the Scribe.
The Lebowitz sisters - Shira, Adina & Meira, KINS Purim celebration, '07
Meira Avigail Lebowitz, named after Jenny, Shoshana Avigail bas Yitzchak Dovid, at Meira's first birthday party
Edward Friedman, with niece Yona Shoshan, of New York, and the twins, Tamar and Esther, at Mike Friedman's sukkah, Skokie, Illinois, October, '07
Michael Friedman and Rena Friedman at the Associated Talmud Torah's dinner, O'Hare Westin hotel, November, '07.
Michael Friedman at the Associated Talmud Torah's dinner.
Veitzener Cheder dinner, January 6, '08 at the Midwest Conference Center in Northlake, Illinois. From the left, Rabbi Leibish Rubin, Boro Park; Rabbi Moshe Steinberg, Chicago; Eddie Friedman, Chicago; Rabbi Eli Aron, Chicago; Rabbi Shloima Horowitz, Boro Park; and Rabbi Moshe Shmiel Rottenberg, Boro Park.
With Rabbi Shnuer Scheiman at the Lubavitch 30th Anniversary dinner at the Wheeling Westin hotel, May 30, '07
Our table at the Chabad dinner; from the left, unknown; Arie Librescu from Renaana, Israel; unknown Chief Rabbi of Hevron, Israel; Rabbi Aranoff of Postville, Iowa; Edward Friedman; seated, Rabbi Kutlowski, Chief Lubavitch Rabbi of all Lubavitchers, from Crown Heights, Brooklyn; Rabbi Donyel Moscowitz, Chief Lubavitch Rabbi of Illinois and Rebbetzin Moscowitz; and Rena and Michael Friedman
With Arie Librescu, son of Professor Liviu Librescu who was massacred at Virginia Tech University
With great niece Emily Grossberg, at Shallot's restaurant
With great nephew Danny Grossberg, at Shallot's restaurant
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Edward Friedman
[1946- ],
"Putting on Talis & Tephillin at Rabbi Unger's Shteibel."
"Tashlich services to cast your sins in the river, at the Devon Avenue bridge, High Holidays, 5770."
![Edward Friedman [1946- ], with Shtreimel, Holy gift from Rabbi Pinchas Eichenstein, in honor of the long and treasured friendship between the Perlman [Perlmuter] and Eichenstein families going back many many years.](images/shtreimel.jpg)
Edward Friedman
[1946- ], with Shtreimel, Holy gift from Rabbi Pinchas Eichenstein, "In honor of the long and treasured friendship between the Perlman [Perlmuter] and Eichenstein families going back many many generations".
Dr. Ghetta Bhat, of Advocate Christ Medical hospital in Oak Lawn, Illinois, acknowledges the new "HeartMate II" implantable pump, which is now approved by the FDA for permanent use to restore ejection fraction percentages to normal. This would have saved Jenny's life. WBBM News, February 23, 2010.
