"They represented the best of our role models in returning and building our homeland. Their story (Eli and Dina Horowitz) is movingly portrayed by their daughter Batsheva Sadan."
Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff
I’m a daughter to amazing parents. I always knew that there was good reason to be jealous of me. Yes, without feeling apologetic or arrogant, but with the simple understanding that not everyone is privileged to have parents like these, and yes – I have reason to be grateful to them and to Hashem. Hundreds of moments of gratitude gravitate together into a large, vibrant picture that is strikingly inconsistent with the words terrorist attack, death, and murder, which left my mouth into the telephone just a few moments ago. Batsheva Sadan was a young expectant mother in 2003 when she was forced to receive the worst possible news: her American-born parents had been cut down in the prime of life by a terrorist as they enjoyed a peaceful Sabbath meal in their home in Kiryat Arba. This lyrical memoir describes the journey of grief, but more than that, it is a tribute to the people Eli and Dina Horowitz were in life. From their beginnings as dynamic and seeking youths to their choice to move from the United States to Israel to live in their homeland, from their meeting and deep lifelong love story to their struggles with infertility and endless love for their children, from their devoted learning of their spiritual tradition to their teaching and principled quest for peace, Sadan takes us through her parents’ lives, imparting who they were and the promise they left behind in their many students, children, and grandchildren. May their memory be for a blessing.
