Welcome to the Guest Book. We encourage you to submit your comments or thoughts about Nancy’s story, her portrait or memorial fund here. We’ll read your submissions and, after we approve them, publish them for others to read.
To create your Guest Book entry, click the “Write a new entry” button, below.
For other ways to contact us, visit the Contact Page.
Dear Mr and Mrs MorgensternAs I am unable to pay you a shiva call, I wanted to wish you and your family a long life and express my condolences for your loss.I met Nancy z'l through Mindy a few times in the summer of 2001 after I moved to New York, and received a copy of the moving book you compiled in her memory.I remember Nancy as someone who was always smiling and living her life to the full and hope I can emulate her positive outlook and happy disposition in my own life.From Mindy's stories it is apparent that she was an exceptionally rare good friend few are fortunate to have.On one occasion, when we were at a party and Mindy and I fell out over something trivial, I remember Nancy reminding us how unimportant it was and to stop arguing. When she heard that one of us saw... Read more
Dear Mr and Mrs MorgensternAs I am unable to pay you a shiva call, I wanted to wish you and your family a long life and express my condolences for your loss.I met Nancy z'l through Mindy a few times in the summer of 2001 after I moved to New York, and received a copy of the moving book you compiled in her memory.I remember Nancy as someone who was always smiling and living her life to the full and hope I can emulate her positive outlook and happy disposition in my own life.From Mindy's stories it is apparent that she was an exceptionally rare good friend few are fortunate to have.On one occasion, when we were at a party and Mindy and I fell out over something trivial, I remember Nancy reminding us how unimportant it was and to stop arguing. When she heard that one of us saw someone she liked, she urged us to go for it and seize the moment.I was at her apartment one Friday night in August for a Shabbat dinner her roomate was hosting just after the Sbarro bombing in Jerusalem. and I remember Nancy reading the graphic report in the newspaper and saying how worried she was for her sister and the new baby in Israel. (As an emergency doctor, my sister's father-in-law, Dr David Applebaum z'l, was one of the first on the scene and was himself killed with his daughter, Naava z'l at the Cafe Hillel bombing in September 2003 the night before her wedding).As I have got older, I have become more aware of how nonconducive it is to remain observant while still single, which makes me think of how easy it would have been for Nancy, as a single woman in the city and such an active member of the biking community to give it all up rather than deal with the practicalities of observing Shabbat and Kashrut and trying to balance both. Yet she chose not to.I am also reminded of Nancy when I think of some single women I have met who are dissatisfied with their lives and sit around waiting for something to change with a negative outlook, and how much she embodied the opposite of this attitude by constantly striving to meet new challenges and pursuing new adventures and goals and how rare this spirit is for a young woman in our religious community.Your book and memorial fund are a wonderful tribute to a vivacious daughter whose life was such a kiddush Hashem.I wish you and all your family a long life and that you should only know Simchas and good health.Best WishesValerie TeslerLondon, 2005... Collapse