CRY CRY CRY WE WILL
Friday, January 30, 2004 07:51

The Arutz-7 community lost an old and dear friend, 
Yechezkel Goldberg, in yesterday's terrorist attack in 
Jerusalem. Goldberg, a 42-year-old social worker from 
Beitar Illit, was the former host of Arutz-7's English-language 
Radio program "Youth Beat". 

The Arutz-7 community lost an old and dear friend, 
Yechezkel Goldberg, in yesterday's terrorist attack in Jerusalem. 
Goldberg, a 42-year-old social worker from Beitar Illit, was the 
former host of Arutz-7's English-language Radio program 
"Youth Beat," dealing with youth in crisis. He hosted the show 
until 2001. 

In addition, Chezi was also a periodic contributor to Israel 
National News.com Opinion page (his archives can be seen here:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/author.php?id=111). 
In his honor, we have reposted an article he wrote for the 
INN Opinion page in 2002, in reaction to a terrorist attack 
that took place minutes from his home. It can be read here:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/article.php3?id=3275.

One day before he was murdered, Chezi Goldberg prerecorded an 
interview for Israel National Radio's Aliya Show, hosted by 
Tamar Yonah and Yishai Flesiher. The interview will be broadcast 
Monday, February 2 on 
http://www.israelnationalradio.com.

Chezi Goldberg's funeral began 10:00pm Thursday night in Beitar 
Illit, outside of the synagogue of the Bostoner Chassidim. 
The city's distinguished rabbis all eulogized him, as parents 
and family listened over the phone from their places of 
residence abroad. 

Rabbi Avraham Stern, who knew Chezi personally as the rabbi of 
the synagogue he attended, along with friends who eulogized him, 
emphasized Goldberg's intimate commitment to helping youth in 
crisis. He was not judgmental and took a personal interest in 
the lives of many people, it was repeatedly noted. Chezi Goldberg 
was mourned as both a giving member of the community and a very 
involved family man, who could be heard singing into the night 
on the Sabbath, and who had a tremendous love of Torah learning. 

Rabbi Yechezkel Goldberg leaves behind a wife and seven children.
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Victim was a 'lifeline' for immigrant kids

By Gil Hoffman
Jerusalem Post
January 30, 2004

A little over a year ago, Canadian-born Yechezkel "Chezi" Goldberg 
wrote an article about his feelings when he heard about a failed 
terrorist attack while riding on a Jerusalem bus. 
He preached for years against making concessions to terrorism in
articles he wrote for The Jewish Press and in a radio show he hosted 
on Arutz 7. But Goldberg, a social worker in Jerusalem and Betar Illit, 
wrote mostly about his specialty: saving American immigrant children at 
risk. His Jewish Press column was called "Lifeline," and he proved to 
be just that for families having difficulty with their aliya and 
Orthodox children who abused drugs and alcohol. 

"When we, here, look at a miraculous escape from a deadly attack 
and breathe a sigh of relief, we lose the war on terrorism," Goldberg 
wrote. "When they fired to kill, [the terrorists] made their intentions
clear... They will try again. "We have been warned. The next time, they 
might hit the target. They next time, we might not be so lucky." 
Goldberg was not lucky on Thursday, when he was killed in the terrorist
attack on a No. 19 bus in Jerusalem. 
When a teen from Jerusalem's Har Nof neighborhood died of a drug
overdose in May 2000, Goldberg was invited to the Knesset to address the
Immigration, Absorption, and Diaspora Affairs Committee. He told the
committee that the problems of Western immigrants often get lost when
the overwhelming majority of immigrants come from the former Soviet
Union, and that Anglo immigrants require special attention. 
Goldberg, 42, a native of Toronto who made aliya eight years ago from
his wife's native Flatbush neighborhood in Brooklyn, had seven children
of his own, ages one to 16, but he left behind dozens of children whom
he helped through his practice and his articles. Friends of Goldberg
said he saved many lives. 
"Even the word saint is not enough to describe him," Betar Illit
spokesman Bezalel Kahn said. "He was always ready to make sacrifices 
to help people." 
Goldberg was eulogized at the Bostoner Shul in Betar Illit, where he
served as a sexton, before he was buried Thursday night at Har Hamenuhot
Cemetery in Jerusalem.