The wife of Caulfield Hebrew Congregation (Kehillas Ahavas Sholom, Caulfield, Melbourne) president Dr Howard Zeimer R”L died in a fatal car accident on Wednesday.
Rochie Zeimer was reportedly driving her Volvo station wagon down Leaburn Avenue in Caulfield North around 12.30pm when her car crossed Balaclava Road and collided with a brick fence. Paramedics attended the scene, but she died soon after.
The exact cause of the accident is unknown.
Zeimer has three children under the age of nine, two of whom attend Yeshivah.
Dr Zeimer, an endocrinologist and graduate of Mount Scopus College, has served as president of CHC since 2005.
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The last i checked if somebody R”L dies in an accident, it’s not called getting KILLED. I hope YW changes this. If she got hit by a drunk driver that would be different.
Just checked my dictionary. “Killed” means death by any agency; the example given is “killed in an accident.” Sorry, Eidel Meidel.
Thank you for that important discussion above of this incident.
some sympathy maybe from kishke and eidel meidel??
she was a young mother of three children- this is a tragedy. may we only hear simchas.
baruch dayan emes
I’m with JOSEPH on this.
Eidel Maidel;
Is semantics what got your attention about this tragedy??? I am personally bothered by this horrible incident and the fact that there are 3 more yisomim in this world and not whether or not YW should alter the headline.
Am I missing something here???
bill: What’s your beef with me? I’m not the one who posted the inane comment; I was correcting it.
The fact that EIDEL commented on the word choice in the article title does not mean that (s)he is not bothered by the fact that someone has died. I am sure that (s)he resents the implication, as would anyone else.
To weigh in on the grammar, both KISHKE and EIDEL are correct. “Killed” can be used even if a death is not deliberate or cannot be traced to a specific action by an intervening party. However, “killed” tends to be used primarily where these factors are present. For example, we generally don’t say someone “was killed by the flu;” we said they “died of it.”
I think that EIDEL’s comment stems from the fact that just reading the title to this story gives one the impression that the death was not a car accident. I felt the same way when I read the title.
Boruch Dayan Ha’Emes.