Sam Orbaum, Jerusalem Post Columnist

From: The New York Jewish Week | Date: December 13, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

Sam Orbaum, a veteran Jerusalem Post columnist who delighted Israel's English-speaking readers with stories of his identical triplet daughters and inspired them with reports of his battle against lymphoma, died of cancer Monday in Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem. He was 46.

A good-natured curmudgeon, Mr. Orbaum railed in his satirical writings against Israeli politicians and religious leaders, insensitive bureaucrats and clueless tourists.

Mr. Orbaum, born in England and raised in Montreal, wrote with the perspective of an outsider (he made aliyah in 1981, and chronicled his struggles to gain ...

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