The passing of a friend

For years, colleagues and I have enjoyed the use of a wonderful site called 'The Interpreter's Friend.

Today that site is closed.

I knew it was coming. Since I heard of David Bar-Tzur's passing in January of this year, I had mourned the loss of a dear colleague and a true friend to every sign language interpreter in the United States and beyond.

For a few extra months, we had been able to enjoy his hard work, his compilation of articles and videos at theinterpretersfriend.com.

But today as I was doing an unrelated search, the site popped up on google and I clicked it.

Unfortunately, the "401 site gone" message appeared.

I will never have the patience or the skill to maintain a site of such quality and excellence, but I hope to slowly fill part of the gap.

I hope others in the profession will do so as well, keeping David's memory alive.

And there is his channel at You-tube, I have no idea how long it will remain. But for a time, it is a visual memorial to an interpreter and person par excellence.

Rest well, my friend, and know we are the better for your life.

Shalom.