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Gilad Schwartz

For three years, Michelle Schwartz has eloquently written on the CaringBridge website about her son Gilad’s cancer.
Michelle, who has freelance written for the Jewish Times on different topics, gave us a candid, unsugar coated look at how this insidious disease entered her son’s life and the life of the Schwartz family.
Today, hundreds of family, friends, classmates and community members packed the main Levinson’s chapel to hear eulogies. Gilad, 19, didn’ t lose his battle with cancer. He didn’t lose anything. Instead, he and his family showed the rest of us how to live with grace, integrity, spirituality, class and a little humor even in the face of death.
We grieve with the Schwartz family, the Yeshivat Rambam community, the Shomrei Emunah community, the Religious Zionist community and for that matter our entire community.
What was equally beautiful was the constant, and I mean constant presence and support and loved given to Gilad by his loving, caring friends.
Eddie and Michelle Schwartz have a beautiful family. Michelle talked with love about all of her four children.
Michelle told the mourners that all she wanted to be was a Mom.
Michelle, you and Eddie taught us all so much about parental courage. You showed us what real love is. And you weren’t afraid to share with us your feelings, your true feelings.
Not trying to lesson this with frivolous words. But cancer, I think you picked on the wrong family this time.
I think you angered the wrong Mom.
Michelle Schwartz, one of the most organized, methodical and purely good people I know, has you on her radar screen.
Gilad is very much alive to us. Its cancer, I’m not so sure about now.

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