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April 3, 2014 by J-Wire Staff
Ezzy Kestecher, scheduled to appear in court in June on sexual abuse charges, was found deceased in his Melboure apartment last week. Rabbi Meir Kluwgant attended the funeral…
From Rabbi Meir Kluwgant:
This past Sunday I attended the funeral of Aaron “Ezzy” Kestecher Z”L, a young man of 28 years who was found deceased in his apartment.
His coffin (in Hebrew Aron) was situated at the front of a room that was filled to capacity with men and woman of all ages who had come to pay their last respects.
There was an eery silence, almost white noise, as the background to the cries and sobs from both sides of the mechitza (partition separating the men from the women).
The prayers were short, the eulogy direct but eloquently delivered, and as I looked around the room I noticed a hotchpotch of faces and expressions. Present were those who kept their doors and homes open to Ezzy throughout his short but tumultuous life; along side them and dispersed throughout the room were those who had rejected him outright, and locked him out from the community and its facilities; and there was a large contingency of his friends, his contemporaries, people he mingled and hanged with, friends who had been with him almost to the very bitter end.
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