Thursday, March 06, 2008
Jersey City police are seeking the public's help in finding a 91-year-old rabbi who vanished after doing a radio show in Downtown Jersey City yesterday morning.
Zev Segal, a Manhattan resident, was last seen at 8:15 a.m. after doing a radio talk show for WFMU at 43 Montgomery St., according to police. He was given directions by his son to Kushner Academy in Livingston to pick up mail, but never arrived and efforts to contact him by cell phone failed.
He is described as in good mental health, 6-2, 190 pounds and was wearing a gray felt hat, gray suit and tie and glasses. He was driving a dark green four-door 1999 Mercury with New York license plate ALT3961.
Anyone with information is urged to call Jersey City police at 201-547-5427 or 201-547-5477
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FYI - it's Nachum Segal's father. Please be Mispallel for Zev ben Miriam.
See http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/Genera...ing+Person.html
See http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/Genera...ing+Person.html
B.D.E.
UPDATE 1:24PM EST: (Thursday) The police are currently on the scene of a confirmed car seen floating in the Hackensack River. Divers are currently enroute to investigate. If anything is confirmed it will be posted ASAP.
UPDATE 1:33PM EST: (Thursday) Divers are in the water attempting to gain access to the vehicle. SkyFox Chopper on the scene reports strong resemblance in vehicles.
UPDATE 1:45PM EST: (Thursday) We sadly report to you that the body of Rabbi Zev Segal has been retrieved from the vehicle found in the Hackensack River.
UPDATE 1:24PM EST: (Thursday) The police are currently on the scene of a confirmed car seen floating in the Hackensack River. Divers are currently enroute to investigate. If anything is confirmed it will be posted ASAP.
UPDATE 1:33PM EST: (Thursday) Divers are in the water attempting to gain access to the vehicle. SkyFox Chopper on the scene reports strong resemblance in vehicles.
UPDATE 1:45PM EST: (Thursday) We sadly report to you that the body of Rabbi Zev Segal has been retrieved from the vehicle found in the Hackensack River.
BDE
So sad. BDE. Must be so difficult for the family the whole way it happened 
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BDE.
BDE. How terrible... I can't imagine what the family must have been feeling when he was missing.
We don't know what happened yet, but I am really thankful that my elderly grandparents are no longer driving. It was very scary when my grandfather was 90 and kept getting into little fender benders.
We don't know what happened yet, but I am really thankful that my elderly grandparents are no longer driving. It was very scary when my grandfather was 90 and kept getting into little fender benders.
BD"E
I guess the fundraising marathon is canceled now for atleast a week, this morning's show was so filled with chizuk from R' Dovid Goldwasser
I guess the fundraising marathon is canceled now for atleast a week, this morning's show was so filled with chizuk from R' Dovid Goldwasser
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