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Ira Zaslow, an outstanding family man, dedicated colleague and dear friend was a person who wanted his children, family and friends to contribute to their community and exhibit the strong moral character he so greatly possessed. To honor him and carry on his special legacy within our family, we have established the Ira Zaslow Foundation.

The primary goal of this foundation will be to honor the heroes and victims of the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center in New York as well as the continued goal of ridding terrorism from our lives and future lives to come. Through the generous support and donations of family, friends and colleagues, the Foundation plans to help build memorials, provide crisis counseling for victims, implement an academic scholarship in Ira’s name, and execute several other cause related projects in the weeks, months and years to come.

“Our main goal is to make a difference in the lives of New Yorkers,” says his eldest son, Bryan Zaslow. “My father was always an active member of his community - if he were here to see some of the Foundation's goals carried out in his name, he would be proud.”

paddleball. "He had a passion for it," said Bryan Zaslow. "It was pure happiness for him to wake up at 6 on Saturdays and Sundays and meet the same paddleball friends. He went anywhere to play." An argument over a foul ball? Play it over, he would say. "Anything," Bryan Zaslow said, "to play more." His other passions were equally homey: A good nap on the couch. Listening to the car radio while Felicia, his wife of 31 years, shopped at the mall. The pizza at a place in North Woodmere, his Long Island hometown. A quiet man, he went out of his way to lend a hand, while deflecting the credit. When New York University rejected a young Lehman employee, he made a call or two and got her in. Then he congratulated her. "He had time for everybody," his son said. " `Whatever you want,' he'd say."