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New York Jewish Week) — Riverdale is in mourning for David Moshe Henoch, 18, who died July 10 after a scuba diving accident while on a trip with his father in Miami, one month after his graduation from SAR High School in June and just weeks after his middle sister’s wedding.
The tight-knit Modern Orthodox community in the Bronx, where Henoch grew up and attended the SAR Jewish day schools, remembered him as a curious, sensitive and empathetic leader among his peers, with a deep sense of humor and excitement for many different areas of life. Friends and family described him as an avid adventurer whose favorite activities — many of which he loved to do with his father Avi — included snowboarding, sailing and basketball. He was a certified scuba diver.
Henoch, who went by the nickname Divi, had plans to complete a gap year at Torah Tech in Tel Aviv before studying engineering at the University of Florida.
Henoch was the youngest sibling of his family, the baby brother to Ariella Goldhammer, 30, and Britt Henoch, 27, but displayed what friends and family called a maturity beyond his years.
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