Yeshiva
Ketana Gives
Books Instead Of Plaques
Shlomo Levine says his father
always wanted to be a singer or movie star, but his mother refused to move
to California. So his father, Daniel, stayed in New York and took over his
father’s business, J. Levine Books and Judaica.
Instead, Shlomo, 14, became the
singer in the family. He’s been part of the Miami Boys Choir for three
years. He’s heard in the group’s new CD, “Stand Up.”
“My son’s living the life I
always wanted,” Daniel said at the Yeshiva Ketana of Manhattan’s 13th
annual dinner at the Lincoln Square Synagogue.
Dinner chairman Michael Landau
said that all honorees – Dr. Benjamin and Mrs. Anna Kest, Mrs. Lenore
Richter, and Daniel and Rosalind Levine – asked that instead of plaques,
they should get books, which they’ll donate to the yeshiva.
“I hope you bought the books at
J. Levine,” Daniel said.
For his response, Daniel told
about three men who died the same day. An angel asked what they wanted to
be said at their funeral.
The first one said, “I want
them to mention yeshivas, mitzvoth, tzedaka.”
The second one said, “Family,
wife, learning.”
The
third one said, “When they stand in front of my casket, I want them to
say, ‘Look, he’s moving! He’s alive!”
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