[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 1]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 507-508]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              HONORING THE YAHRZEIT OF BETH SHARON SAMUELS

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                         HON. HOWARD L. BERMAN

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, January 19, 2011

  Mr. BERMAN. Mr. Speaker, this month marks the fourth anniversary of 
the passing of Beth Sharon Samuels, an extraordinary Angeleno who lost 
her life to cancer in January 2007 at the age of 31.
   Beth grew up in Los Angeles, attending the Yeshiva University High 
School of Los Angeles and graduating as valedictorian. She went on to 
study at a women's seminary in Israel before graduating from Columbia 
University with a degree in mathematics. She then completed a three-
year program at the Drisha Institute in Bible and Talmud, a Ph.D. in 
math at Yale, and earned an assistant professorship at the University 
of California, Berkeley. In the meantime, she gave birth to a daughter, 
Danelle, and later to daughter Natalia while undergoing intensive 
chemotherapy treatments.
   Beth remains with us, even with increasing distance from her 
passing. Last year, Beth's friends and family published The Wisdom of 
Bat Sheva: The Dr. Beth Samuels Memorial Volume, a series of lectures 
and discussions on Torah learning, including an essay by Beth. The book 
highlights that Beth's spirit continues to teach and inspire. Beth was 
such a powerful force of spirituality, learning, and divine

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presence, and her memory will continue to serve as a powerful blessing.
   My condolences go out to her parents, Elana and Zachary, her 
husband, Ari, her daughters Danelle and Natalia and her extended 
friends and family on this solemn occasion.

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