Reunited Thursday night with the hero in pinstripes who saved her from choking on food at Yankee Stadium, a Bronx rabbi's wife exclaimed, “I would be dead without you.”
“Thank you! Thank you! Thank you,” Toby Weiss told John Stone, the Army medic and Iraq veteran who rushed to her rescue during the first inning of Wednesday's game. “Without you, I don't know where I would be.”
Woman Who Choked at Yankees Game Reunited with ‘Angel’
Reunited Thursday night with the hero in pinstripes who saved her from choking on food at Yankee Stadium, a Bronx rabbi’s wife exclaimed, “I would be dead without you.”
“Thank you! Thank you! Thank you,” Toby Weiss told John Stone, the Army medic and Iraq veteran who rushed to her rescue during the first inning of Wednesday’s game. “Without you, I don’t know where I would be.”
Weiss, who is married to Rabbi Avi Weiss of the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, hugged Stone and invited him to pray at her synagogue.
“I’m just glad you’re okay, honestly,” Stone told Weiss when he visited her home Thursday night.
“We’re connected now,” Weiss, wearing a pink Yankees cap, told Stone. “It’s not a one-shot deal. I would be dead without you.”
Stone, 38, was sitting about 15 rows behind Weiss when she began choking on a piece of kosher London broil. Stone sprang into action and performed a life-saving Heimlich maneuver.
“I’m too young to die,” Weiss, 66, told Stone.
She insisted that Stone was heaven-sent.
“God sent me an angel,” said Weiss, noting that her unassuming hero was blushing over the praise.
She joked that she was “turning blue,” and Stone responded, “It’s colorful.”
A die-hard Yankees fan, Weiss decorates her Riverdale home with Bronx Bombers memorabilia – including a picture of herself with ex-Yankees skipper Joe Torre.
Her collection grew by two items after her rescue. The Yankees provided Weiss with a bobblehead doll and a team media guide after her brush with death.
The team moved Stone and his brother, an Army infantry soldier on leave from Afghanistan, to the front row and plied them with all the food and booze they could handle.
“I was so scared,” Toby Weiss said of her near-fatal encounter. “My husband kept saying, ‘Help us! Help us!’ That made me feel even more scared.
”I was really in trouble. I couldn’t swallow, and I couldn’t spit it out,“ she said. ”Then I saw those big hands around me.“
The Montville, Conn., man – who wore a Don Mattingly No. 23 jersey to the game – was making his first visit to the new Yankee Stadium.
”I thank God that he sent John to the Stadium that day,“ said Weiss.
The phones were ringing off the hook at both the Weiss and Stone homes yesterday with calls of congratulations and thanks.
”If I had another baby, I’d name him John Stone – boy or girl,“ Weiss told her rescuer. ”Without you, I don’t know if I’d be here today.”
hadssas r
can u just imagine it? a nice little Jewish girl named “John Stone”?! ;-D
Tznius
Not exactly a “Tzinus’dika” picture – especially if she is a Rebbetzin…!
aliza a
i know the rabbi and his wife – very good people – im glad their ok bh
cb
Is this the same Rabbi Weiss who allows women Rabbi’s???
Why here?
Just wondering being a crown heights info site, why is this being posted here? There is nothing Chabad, lubavitch or CH related?
Crown Heights Fan of Rabbi Weiss
Rabbi Weiss is a really special person. I do not know his wife, but I am sure that she is too.
I am so happy that she is fine, and that G-D sent this angel to save her. I am sure that this good man will be rewarded from up above. We need more people like him!
yhd
i knew someone would make that tznius comment. this nice yiddeshe woman almost lost her life. you cant have the sensibility to say a nice comment and share her joy that shes safe. whats with you??!!!i think you have issues, that was probally passed down from your parents.
t s
a nice story of a stranger helping another stranger, saving a life. try to keep the negative comments in your own head.
Pinchos Woolstone
The Weiss family are from the far left of Orthodoxy, tznius is the least of the issues one could take them to task on.
Just recently Avi Weiss attempted to appoint a woman with the title of Rabbi or something similar.
It was only the fact that the Rabbinical Council of America intervening that forced Weiss to pull back from his non -orthodox desire.
Such leaders are worse than reform, as they talk the Orthodox game but tinker with Halochoh, in order to ingratiate themselves to minority groups or their own ambivalence to our Mesorah
The RCA needs to stand vigilant, Avi Weiss is not alone there are other members of the RCA Rabbinate who continuously play very close to the edge of positions which are clearly outside the realm of Torah MiSinai are definitely do not comply to the spirit of BeRuach Yisroel Saba.
Pinchos Woolstone
I together with everyone commend the gentleman who came to the rescue of Mrs Weiss.
May G-d bless him for his swift life saving actions
May Mrs Weiss enjoy a long healthy and happy and long life, sheppen nachas from all her loved ones
oy vey
cb yes it is.
How sad this is. She could have made a great Kiddush Hashem and really done something for her savior by refusing to make physical contact with him and instead giving him a meaningful gift. Instead, the team rewarded him physically with a party, and she used the whole situation for a publicity shot and violated halacha in public.
Learn to do the Heimlich manuever
Everyone should learn the Heimlich manuever! It’s very easy to do – as long as it’s done correctly. My husband was choking at dinner one evening and I immediately performed the Heimlich manuever on him and a piece of meat shot out from his throat! B”H he was fine, but it’s a split second action – you’ll know when someone is in danger!
anonomous
its a huge shame for the rabbi and his dispicable wife they will destroy orthodoxy period, no woman rabbis allowed!it was all a publicity stunt anYway goD bless the real rabbis!THE REAL CHOKING IS WHEN HE Allows woman rabbis!
Avram Avinu Padre Querido
I’m sure Mrs. Weiss said to this guy Jack Stone:
“Toda ”RABBAH“ for saving my life!”
HAHAHAHA
shoimer n-gia
this is poshet disgusting!
A SO-CALLED REBBETZIN SHOULD NOT BE HUGGING A MAN LIKE THAT!
to “tznius”: you are absolutely right
to “yhd”: you’re completely wrong. even if tznius was wrong in her comment, why would you say something like “I think you have issues, that was probably passed down from your parents?!”
I think u r the one who has issues!