An open message to Dick and Dottie Appelbaum

This is the speech from Faye and Paul Jeser's video honoring Dick Appelbaum at the J Soiree, held May 8.

Hey, Dick & Dottie – do you miss us yet?

We are Faye and Paul Jeser, and we are so pleased to be asked to make this video, Rachel [Greenspan] asked us to speak for about 15 minutes ... but I'll make it much, much shorter than that.

Dottie, we know that this evening is in honor of Dick, but truth be told, you were the wife behind the husband telling him what to do ... and should also be honored.

It was December 1984, 41 years ago, when we arrived in Orlando.

I was the new JCC and Federation...