Rav Moshe Kesselman on Tisha B'Ov; Anita Garlick; Larry Lester

Rav Moshe Kesselman is the rabbi of Congregation
Shaarei Tefila in Los Angeles. He talks about Tisha B'Ov, the
Jewish day of fasting and communal mourning that begins the same
evening (July 29) as this show goes out on the radio. He was
interviewed via Zoom the day before the show from his home in Los
Angeles. The late Anita Garlick was interviewed at
her home in Brookline, MA, in September 2019. She later passed away
in March of 2020. Born in 1924 and raised in the Brownsville
section of Brooklyn, NY, she raised her family in the town of
Monticello, NY, in the Catskill Mountains, where her husband was a
funeral director and the mayor. In the interview she recalled,
among other things, her and her family's encounter with the famous
Woodstock Music Festival of 1969, 50 years earlier, and how it had
surprised, fascinated, and nearly overwhelmed her small town and
the surrounding region. An extensive obituary is online here:
https://josephngarlickfuneralhome.com/tribute/details/1621/Anita-Garlick/obituary.html
The late Larry Lester was interviewed at his home
in Los Angeles in April 2019. He later passed away in January 2020.
In the interview he talks about various phases of his long and
interesting life. Born in 1928 in Iršava, Czechoslovakia (now
Irshava, Ukraine), he survived the Holocaust, including Auschwitz,
as a teenager, but lost his parents and most siblings. He came to
America in 1946 to join a surviving brother, served two years in
the US Army, and eventually settled in Los Angeles, where he got
married, had children, and established Lester Carpet, a successful
area business still run by his family. His obituary from the LA
Times is online here:
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/latimes/obituary.aspx?n=larry-lester&pid=195138541

Music:

Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an
instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing
Waltz

Outro instrumental music: Itzhak Perlman, Dov Seltzer,
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra: Afn Veg Shteyt A Boym





Air Date: July 29, 2020