DES MOINES, IA — The body of Maj. Stuart Wolfer, one of two soldiers felled by an April 6 rocket attack inside Baghdad's Green Zone, made its way back home Tuesday as Jewish communities thousands of miles apart mobilized to give comfort to his loved ones.
Jewish Communities Support Family of Slain American Soldier
DES MOINES, IA — The body of Maj. Stuart Wolfer, one of two soldiers felled by an April 6 rocket attack inside Baghdad’s Green Zone, made its way back home Tuesday as Jewish communities thousands of miles apart mobilized to give comfort to his loved ones.
Wolfer, a 36-year-old Army reservist from Idaho, had been working out in a gym when the attack occurred. A married father of three, he grew up in south Florida, where his parents, Esther and Leonard Wolfer, still live. Known for his deep commitment to Jewish life, he served as the Jewish lay leader at Kuwait’s Camp Buehring during a previous tour of duty.
“Stuart was one of the most dynamic men I’ve ever met, and anyone he knew would say the same about him,” his widow, Lee Anne Wolfer, said in a statement released to the media. “He was special and he was loved. He made a difference in people’s lives, and made a difference in how people dealt with one another.”
Rabbi Shlomo Kugel, co-director of Chabad-Lubavitch of the West Side in New York City, said that the news stunned his community, where Wolfer’s sister, Beverly Nerenberg, attends synagogue and sends her children to Hebrew school. Community members quickly lined up to provide meals and child care for the Nerenbergs; some 200 people signed up to recite Psalms as a comfort to Wolfer’s soul.
sariba
oh gosh…my g-d protect all the soldiers out there. his neshama should have an aliya. maybe u could tell us his full name and father’s name?
the Kugel family
Boruch Dayan Haemes. May Hashem comfort his family.
CELC
Shmuel Luza Avraham ben Leib
the Kugels
His full name: Shmuel Luzah Avraham ben Leib v’Esther
May there only be good news to report.