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November 6, 2024

Remembering a Philanthropist with a Classic American Jewish Success Story

Bernie Marcus, z”l, co-founder of Home Depot.

These traditions mostly pertain to close relatives of the deceased and their friends and neighbors who seek to comfort them. Judaism encourages those less closely connected to join the mourners in recounting the virtues and good deeds of the dead. Following the recent death of Bernie Marcus, z”l, the co-founder and longtime chief executive of Home Depot, it seems appropriate to do just that. Born in Newark, New Jersey to Russian Jewish immigrants in 1929, Marcus’s story is very much an American Jewish one. Glenn Rifkin writes:

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