I believe in reward and punishment. He was. So he took care of it himself in advance. In the film, Koch visits his own grave with Diane Mulcahy Coffey, his chief of staff.
The marker did not have the birth date engraved on it when Koch was buried. Coffey told NBC 4 New York on Monday that she was "appalled" to hear of the error, but also said Koch might have found humor in the mistake. Back to Article. Does anyone think the Mayor nowadays is proud of his heritage?
I was robbed and shaken down during his time. I have every right to remember him for the lousy mayor that he was. I also have every right to mention how he treated the true leaders of our people. In his time, I feared walking the streets of Crown Heights at night. I was shaken down in the subway when coming back to Manhattan from simchas beis hashoeva in , and that is my most lasting memory of those years.
He basically tried to shame the Lubavitcher Rebbe ZYA, who never endorsed any candidate for any office in the US, but gave all who asked brochos for success, into giving him an endorsement.
The Rebbe of course refused politely and still gave him a brocho. This is on video, and it shows the real Ed Koch — a sleazy politician who pit everyone against everyone else for his own gain.
I was too tired to find out how to write in Bernhard Hugo Goetz. Once he was out, he said whatever would get him the press coverage that he so loved. He was really the same as a certain MAF personality-wise, but he was brighter so he achieved more.
I do think, however, that was a wakeup call for him, and that his most recent proclamations were sincere. Yes, like most every Jew who does not get kooreis. That amount of time is 11 months. Unlike Eliezer ben Dordai, who could buy oilam haba in a moment, Ed Koch caused real damage to many Jews, and he did not ask for mechila in their lifetimes. As for the date coincidence, he and Daniel Pearl only expressed their Judaism when it was too late.
That is why the coincidence is the secular date! Koch was the type of Democrat I could have a conversation with. His endorsement of Bush and McCain attests to his love of country and ahavat yisrael, and I enjoyed his political commentary and desire to stamp out corruption in local politics. Be kitzur, American Reform in the s totally stopped any ritual observance see the Pittsburgh Platform of , since they denied the binding nature of mitzvot.
Certainly, they used certain aesthetics which were not problematic in the sanctuary like Geneva robes, choirs, vernacular, learned sermons, etc. Hebrew Union College employs Prof. Emanu-El is a holdout of the olden days resisting this otherwise positive development, and therefore is problematic. There could be more to the story. All the US had unprecented crime since then. It got even worse under Dinkins. To all above posters. It was not uncommon in Europe to have a section partitioned off from a non-jewish cemetery to be used solely for Jews.
Mr Koch consulted with Rabbonim and aside from fencing off his area he also acquired the rights for a gate into the cemetery near his plot to be known as the Jewish gate and only Jewish funeral processions will go through it.
While myself and I am assuming most posters we should all live long would not want such a resting place, before people say that he is being buried in contradiction to Halacha at least check with a Rabbi for clarification if what he did was okay It actually may be kosher. Regarding temple emanuel for the services and many of his liberal policies including an even if Halachichally kosher definitely not normative burial : A Jew who grew up in early — mid s America without true formal education is a true tinok shenishbar you cannot judge him because of that.
Aside from lack of knowledge there was also a constant undercurrent of bashing orthodoxy as something for the old world. Does anyone have Shiva details? Is there a Mishna listing to sign up? Has anyone been assigned to recite Kaddish for the upcoming 11 months?
Fortunately, Ed Koch missed the problematic Johrzeit timing just by 10 days [meaning that once Adar arrives and would have been Niftar therein, big problem with scheduling of Johrzeit in a leap year]. I agree with abcd2. There have many Jews buried together with Christians in nondenominational cemeteries. Trinity continues to operate cemeteries at the Wall Street church and at St. In , the Academy of Sciences erected a monument over the grave of the naturalist artist John James Audubon who had lived on an estate bordering the land the cemetery occupies.
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