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Martin Herskovitz

Sep 20, 2018, 7:48 AM

Sorry for not writing earlier. I went to see my mom in LA in between Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur. She no longer recognizes me and once out of her sight, she has forgotten I was even there. But...

Sep 11, 2018, 11:36 PM

Marriage- Biblical times and now

After my last blog my wife said to me “Don’t you ever dare write about me or our marriage.” Big Mistake.Talk about waving a red cape in front of a bull The part of my brain still dominated by a...

Sep 8, 2018, 11:26 PM

How the Holocaust has Shaped My Philanthropy

I am a child of a Holocaust Survivor, Second Generation, 2g for short. The Holocaust has shaped who I am. If the Survivors were promised, in the sign at the entrance of the Auschwitz that “Arbeit Macht Frei- Work...

Sep 6, 2018, 4:02 PM

Lesson of a Novice Philanthropist

For some reason Hashem decided to rain some money on my head. The money, I felt, was never really mine so on August 1, 2018 I set up a Donor Advised fund and went about finding causes to give...

About Me

Martin Herskovitz was born in 1955 a child of a Holocaust Survivor. In 1986 he and his spouse made Aliyah. He worked for 30 years in the IDF in Occupational Safety and Health and made early retirement to run his family tzedaka fund which consists mostly on the settlement he and his wife received from the Arab Bank Case.