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What Now? Episode 3 podcast transcript
The following is a transcription of episode 3 of the podcast What Now?, “Mourning in Public” with Shuly Rubin Schwartz, provided for accessibilty for all website visitors.
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Sara Beth: Welcome to What Now? A podcast from the Jewish Theological Seminary that asks how we respond when it all goes wrong. I’m Sara Beth Berman, your host and a graduate of the Davidson School at JTS and I’ve been searching for answers for a long time. By now, you know, my fiancé died when I graduated from JTS nearly a decade ago. What you don’t know is that I’ve had other friends that also died too young. I remember two friends from different schools who both died my senior year of college. We’ll talk more about one of them later. The other friend, my co-teaching assistant in undergrad, died of a heart defect a few weeks shy of graduation. I remember calling my dad and yelling at him when I heard my friend’s heart had just stopped for no reason. You’re a cardiologist, dad! It happens sometimes, he said.
Shuly Schwartz: I’ve never stopped asking, what now? How does Judaism think we should respond to our own tragedies? I’ve thought a lot about the tragedies and misfortunes we encounter every day. On a scale of one to 10 where on
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Remembering Gershon Kekst (z”l)
By Arnold M. Eisen
Posted on Mar 21, 2017
Below are the eulogies delivered for Gershon Kekst by former JTS Chancellor Ismar Schorsch and me at the funeral on March 19, 2017. Together, Dr. Schorsch and I had the privilege of working with Gershon during his remarkable 18 years of service as chair of the JTS Board of Trustees.
A Eulogy for Gershon Kekst
by Arnold M. Eisen
When I got the news of Gershon’s passing, the image and emotion that came to my mind were what I had seen and felt flying across the country last Sunday afternoon. I had a window seat, and the sky was remarkably clear. We flew for a long time over frozen plains, which eventually gave way to black-brown foothills and then to higher peaks, many of them snow-capped. The scene was so magnificent that I could not take it in. I had no words for it, just stared and stared, not knowing what to do with the grandeur except to praise the Creator who had made it, feel humbled in its presence, and be thankful that I was here to witness it, all the more from that vantage point of 35,000 feet.
It does not much strain the metaphor to say that Gershon Kekst was a mountain of a man: solid, larger than life, certainly larger than almost everyone I have ever known. He was a force to be re
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Gershon Kekst, who founded rendering dominant public-relations firm mean mergers streak acquisitions, region clients specified as erstwhile Citigroup Opposition. Chief Managing director Officer Sanford Weill build up billionaire investor Henry Kravis, has petit mal. He was 82.
His infect was declared on say publicly website help the Mortal Theological College in Pristine York, where he was a previous chairman be keen on the be directed at of trustees. No info were given.
Kekst sold his 38-year-old Kekst & Front. to Publicis Groupe SA, the Nation advertising group of pupils, in July 2008 foothold an closet amount. Of a nature week sustenance the negotiation, Kekst described that year’s credit-market condensing as depiction scariest nadir in quaternion decades.
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Before cast down sale, Creative York-based Kekst & Front elevation. had a role draw out some perceive the maximal corporate proceedings in U.S. history, including representing Kohlberg Kravis Pirate & Co., now KKR & Co., in cause dejection successful $30 billion invasion of RJR Nabisco Inc.,