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	Remember “Big” Bob? If So, E-mail Me Baltimore Jewish Times February 17, 2009 http://blogs.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/philjacobs/remember_big_bob_if_so_e-mail_me/ Back in the 1960s and early 1970s, there was a BBYO AZA chapter called Kellam AZA. It later was renamed Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. AZA. Many of its chapter members are probably in their 50s and 60s by now. Kellam/King AZA had as its chapter advisor a man named Bob Weisman. He was a balding, short statured, heavy set man, who was also known in the community as “Big Bob.” Bob owned a soft-served ice cream truck and used to do business by stopping his truck in various streets and neighborhoods mostly in the Upper Park Heights, Cheswolde and Pickwick areas. He was also an employee of a former electronic repair store located back then in the Fallstaff Shopping Center and called Sirkis Music. While Bob was active with the youth of the day, he might have been a little too active. He was known to show what were called back then “stag” films to the boys in his AZA chapter and to other boys in the neighborhood as well. Stag films, just in case you might not know, are reel-to-reel porno movies. Can you imagine sending your son off to a Jewish youth group meeting not knowing that instead of playing sports or raising tzedakah of some sort, they would be watching a porno movie provided by their chapter advisor. One person I interviewed about Mr. Weisman said that Mr. Weisman tried to “seduce” him many times when he was in 11th and 12th grade. I located and placed a call to the man who was the director of BBYO in Baltimore back then, and when I asked him about Mr. Weisman, he didn’t “remember” or didn’t offer a reaction. How could the director not know? Then again, most parents knew nothing of the activities of their sons back then. As a member of this generation, a member of AZA, not Kellam/King, I remember that this was a time when boys probably wouldn’t have mentioned anything like this to their parents. I have been told that Mr. Weisman died allegedly of AIDS. If you know of any information about Mr. Weisman, I would be forever grateful. My email is pjacobs@jewishtimes.com or pjacobs380@aol.com. A friend told me that Mr. Weisman would ask him how much money he would accept from him to have sex with him. My friend is 57 now. He was 17 when these questions were asked. God only knows what other questions Mr. Weisman was asking of boys back then. And what about the answers? So, if you knew of Bob, know of Bob, were members of his AZA chapter, I’d love to hear from you. And Bob, if the information is incorrect about your death. Call me, we can discuss other “issues” of impact to my life.
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