Mourning Jonah Dreskin

Jonah Dreskin, son of Rabbi Billy Dreskin and Cantor Ellen Dreskin, both teachers of mine, was found barely alive outside his college dorm room at the University at Buffalo (SUNY Buffalo) late Wednesday night and subsequently pronounced dead at an area hospital. It seems, at first, weird to mourn someone whom I did not know personally, but as a Jew, I have practice. From an early age, I was taught to mourn the victims of the Holocaust -11-13 million, including 6 million Jews. But this is different. Jonah was the victim of a singular tragedy. I guess I'm not so much mourning my loss of him, but the loss of those around him.

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