Nov 2018
Ezra Schwartz
Oct 1, 1997 — Nov 19, 2015
The dice of terror
Was cast that day
Young Ezra’s life
Was taken away
He went to Israel
For his gap year
To study at yeshiva
And volunteer
During a Mitzvah
To feed some soldiers
The van was ambushed
By Jew hating ogres
It mattered not
They knew not him
Or that his heart flowed
With Simchas Hachaim
To those you touched
You were a young Mensch
To all who knew you
Your loss is immense
Young Ezra Schwartz
I’ll never know you
For they took you away
For being a Jew
But what they don’t realize
You’re still here with us
You’re everywhere you smiled
And in everyone you touched
Oct 1, 1997 — Nov 19, 2015
The dice of terror
Was cast that day
Young Ezra’s life
Was taken away
He went to Israel
For his gap year
To study at yeshiva
And volunteer
During a Mitzvah
To feed some soldiers
The van was ambushed
By Jew hating ogres
It mattered not
They knew not him
Or that his heart flowed
With Simchas Hachaim
To those you touched
You were a young Mensch
To all who knew you
Your loss is immense
Young Ezra Schwartz
I’ll never know you
For they took you away
For being a Jew
But what they don’t realize
You’re still here with us
You’re everywhere you smiled
And in everyone you touched
Ezra Schwartz was from a town not far from me, he went to Israel for a year to study and Volunteer before he started college back in Massachusetts. The van he was traveling in on his way to drop sandwiches off to Israeli soldiers was ambushed, young Ezra, at 18 was shot and killed.by terrorists .
