Marcia Friedman

Mar 25, 2024 | reviewjournal.com | Marcia Friedman

It was the longest drive of Ben Perry’s life — one no father would want to take. Hours after the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel by Hamas terrorists, the Las Vegas resident was taking his son, Yuval Perry, and son-in-law Benji Diechter to a command post near the Lebanese border. Yuval and Benji, reservists in the same reconnaissance unit of the Israel Defense Forces, had been summoned to the front lines of the war. “I drove them to their post about 2½ hours from Tel Aviv.

Dec 1, 2023 | jewishpress.com | Marcia Friedman

PREFACEI interviewed Anna Fischer over the Summer of 1983, in her home in Los Angeles. At that time, she was in her early 60s. When World War II broke out, she was fresh out of secondary school, a young woman of eighteen. A young woman of eighteen in most western countries, then or now, would be going off for a higher education, getting her first full-time job, or looking toward marriage or her independence.

May 11, 2023 | ard.bmj.com | Marcia Friedman |Kevin L. Winthrop

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6722-2159Marcia A Friedman1, http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3892-6947Kevin L Winthrop1,2 1 Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA 2 School of Public Health, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA Correspondence to Dr Marcia A Friedman, Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR 97239-3098, USA; friedmam{at}ohsu.edu Statistics from Altmetric.com Request Permissions If you wish to reuse any or all of this...

Feb 9, 2023 | tabletmag.com | Marcia Friedman

My dad died several years before I married the love of my life, Daryl. At our wedding my father-in-law, David, stepped into that fatherly void with grace and gravitas. He eloquently honored my dad in his remarks, causing many eyes to well up, and offered advice to us on embracing life together. I’ll never forget that. But I especially think of David on the Shabbat when we read Parshat Yitro, which I’ve come to consider Jewish Father-in-Law’s Day.