sad month for Seattle's Jewish community

This month, the Seattle Jewish community lost four people. One was a gentleman who is one of the primary families in Seward Park. I actually was at his house on the Friday night before he passed away as there was a Mincha/Maariv Minyan held at his house on Friday nights as it would be difficult for him to go up the hill coming back from synagogue.

Then my contemporary and friend from high school lost his son to brain cancer last week. That was very very sad. We said a lot of Tehillim (Psalms) for him and someone sold purple wristbands with his Hebrew name on it to raise money for Children's Hospital of Seattle.

On Monday my second cousin's father passed away. She married someone from the community who is a Jewish Studies professor at the University of Minnesota and they have a two year old daughter who is a doll. Her father was sick for quite some time, it's still sad, even if he was much older than my friend's son.

Then the Baal Tefillah of one of the synagogues for many years passed away on Monday afternoon. So it has been a rough month.

One bit of good news, my cousin's wife had a boy two weeks ago.