Posted on 09/01/2002 1:29:51 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:08:20 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
THE family of World Trade Center victim Shai Levinhar, 29, isn't waiting for Sept. 11 to mark his death.
"According to the Hebrew calendar, Shai was killed on the 23rd of the month of Elul, one week before our New Year," his father, Zvi Levinhar, told me Friday.
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Liat Levinhar, back in Israel now, remembers how she tried to teach her husband to tango nearly a decade ago, before they married and moved to the United States. "I knew him from the army, so I taught him how to dance," she said.
He wanted to learn, and his exuberance extended past the dance floor. Shai Levinhar knew little about the United States when he arrived, so he asked a lot of questions. Friends explained, precisely and in sometimes painful detail, why the New York Giants lost Super Bowl XXXV. Co-workers explained that they did not directly pay for their children's education; rather, they paid property taxes. "He really wanted to know," said Ken McCollister, a colleague at eSpeed.
Mr. Levinhar finished an executive M.B.A. program in July, just in time to clear his schedule for a new passion. His daughter, Sapir Natalie, was born Aug. 2, 2001.
Paul Calacicco, the doorman at his building on East 83rd Street, remembers trying to give Mr. Levinhar his packages when he arrived home from work. " `I'll pick it up later,' " he recalled Mr. Levinhar as saying on those occasions. "He was just so excited to go upstairs and see the kid."
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