YWN regrets to inform you of the passing of former NYS Speaker Sheldon Silver at the age of 77.
A native of the Lower East Side, Silver was a longtime supporter of and defender of numerous causes important to the frum community.
He was instrumental in getting approval for Chevrah Hatzolah to operate in New York, as well as to use lights and sirens.
He was also extremely close with HaRav Dovid Feinstein zt”l, and took the posek hador’s guidance to heart.
Silver was battling cancer and passed away at a correctional facility in Massachusetts, where he was serving time for a fraud conviction.
Levaya details will be published when it becomes available.
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BDE this is so sad. They were very unfair to him. May his family have nechama.
Shame on the parole Board and particularly Cuomo the Rasha and anti Semite for allowing him to die in jail. He did nothing wrong except be a Jew that the media hates. Cuomo released murderers and robbers before he resigned. May he rot in Hell one day. Also the anti Semitic Judge Valerie E. Caproni . May she rot in Hell one day.
“The remaining clemencies came in the form of commutations for people who had served more than a decade in prison for crimes that included manslaughter, robbery or murder.”
This does not make sense.
He is 77 years old plus he is a sick man battling diseases. He was in jail for his issues, but all those young healthy guys in NY and California and other states, they can rob what ever they want, smash store windows and litter the streets of NY with a trillion pieces of glass, hurt people, smash people and etc. and etc. they never go to jail. A day later they are out on the street killing Korean women.
So sad that he passed away at a correctional facility.
May his family have a nechama and know of no more tza’ar.
I am aware of why he was incarcerated, I do not approve of the behavior. nevertheless I am mystified why hoodlums of all kinds are on the streets and released from jail due to Covid yet former NYS Speaker Sheldon Silver had to die alone like a dog.
BDE, does anyone know his full Hebrew name and that of his father?
He was an askin par excellance
כל מקום שיש חילול השם אין חולקין כבוד לרב
ברכות יט ב
por-
His full Hebrew name is שמעון בן נחום זצ״ל. May his נשמה have an עליה.
every action he made had the Jewish people’s interest in mind..
we have all lost a GREAT man…
HON. SHELDON SILVER, A”H
husband of Rosa Silver
father of Eddie Silver, Janine Somerstein, Rookie Trebitsch
and Estie Fried
FUNERAL
Will take place on Wednesday, January 26th at 10 AM
at the Bialystoker Synagogue
7-11 Bialystoker Place
New York, NY 10002
Kevura will take place in Beth Moses Cemetery in Farmingdale, NY
cantordbsesq: Although that Chazal is not necessarily applicable in this case at this juncture, I’m glad you had the sense to bring that up.
Too often, by too many people these guys are held up as “victims of anti-semitism” – and even heroes by some-.