GREAT READS → SHUL WITH A VIEW Issue 975 · August 23, 2023

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He was about to hear the words which would change his life forever

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HE had avoided this moment for 22 years.

He had successfully evaded, dodged, and sidestepped the confrontation through excuses, trickery, and any pretext he could think of.

He was the master escape artist, the Harry Houdini (whose real name was Eric Weiss, and he, too, was the son of a rabbi) of the Jewish world.

Somehow he circumvented and bypassed that which no other person in his kehillah had succeeded in doing. He was 35 and planned to continue living in denial, somehow always conveniently disappearing just when capture seemed imminent.

That was until that fateful Shabbos in July 2023.

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