Family
He married Shoshana Poupko (d. 2009), with whom he had two sons and a daughter. Their daughter, Rivka Leah, married Rabbi Yehoshua Goldman, who directed the Vaad of Cincinnati for seven years before developing a brain tumor and succumbing to it three years later. The Goldmans' son, Eliezer Mordechai, also succumbed to a brain tumor at the age of 23.
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“Being so wrong about her makes me wonder now how often I am utterly wrong about myself. And how wrong she might have been about her mother, how wrong he might have been about his father, how much of family life is a vast web of misunderstandings, a tinted and touched-up family portrait, an accurate representation of fact that leaves out only the essential truth.”
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A: Being born a man.”
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