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Rosalind Forman Eulogy, delivered by Louis L. Kaplan

For more than a thousand years, from the days of Aristotle until Maimonides, the via media or golden mean has been recommended as the ideal way to live. There have been practitioners of this art who came to it only after years of excess, followed by great effort to overcome the appetitional drives. Roz lived the golden mean effortlessly, for it was inherent in her nature. She loved beautiful things and acquired what she could for her home, her family and herself, without denigrating the simple or exaggerating the importance of the expensive ...
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Notes on Kaplan (1902-2001): a close family friend and a Jewish community leader. Len Forman, and others, referred to him as the "King of the Jews". He was the president of Baltimore Hebrew University, and a member of the University of Maryland Board of Regents.

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