Talk:Hillel Yaffe Medical Center
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[edit] A dedication
This article was next on my writing list anyway, but I have a special reason to add a little extra effort. My friend, Elliot Steinberger, died last week. At this time last year he was a classmate in my physical chemistry course and an advanced chemistry seminar at Yeshiva University. We also learned Talmud together in the shiur of Rabbi Michael Rosensweig.
Ellie was a short, frail man, forced to ride around campus in a scooter because he was unable to walk. Despite his physical limitations, he excelled intellectually. During one class in the advanced chemistry seminar, each student was required to present a summary of a lecture they had recently heard outside of class. Almost everyone (not including me) used the same lecture about batteries given by the father of one of the students. Ellie had also prepared a Powerpoint presentation on the subject, but after showing the first slide, he joked, "Since nobody wants to hear this anymore..." and promptly closed the presentation and opened another one, which summarized his research on the structure of proteins from the previous summer.
Like many students at YU, Ellie spent a year between high school and college studying Torah in Israel, and he was accepted to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine after he graduated from Yeshiva College in May 2007. It seems appropriate to dedicate an article about an Israeli hospital in memory of such a friend. Shalom (Hello • Peace) 01:44, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
