Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has died at the age of 77.
The New York City Democrat was first elected to the state’s lower chamber in 1976 and became speaker in 1994.
Silver, in his subtle way, always made much of where he came from. An observant, Orthodox Jew, he never strayed far from the neighborhood.
He was raised in a tenement on Henry Street, where his father owned a hardware store, and went to Rabbi Jacob Joseph High School, just down the street, where he was captain of the basketball team.
He went to college at Manhattan’s Yeshiva University and then Brooklyn Law School, before winning his first race for the state assembly in 1976.
He and his wife moved into a cooperative apartment on Grand Street just a few blocks from his childhood home, where they raised a family in what is known collectively as Cooperative Village
Silver resigned from the speakership in January 2015. He was serving a 6-1/2 year prison sentence.
Silver was a noted baal chesed who did many good deeds, helping others in the community in any he could.
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Sheldon Silver did not belong in jail. Such a good man, always helping others. Very sad.
He might have done lots of good deeds but you never know how rotten he was to the core like many leaders and politicians who were coronavirused.
Does anyone know his full Hebrew name and his father’s?
Baruch Dayan HaEmmes
Baruch Dayan HaEmmes
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 takre place in Beth Moses Cemetery in Farmingdale, NY
BDE