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Balsam also ran a plant that processed milk from other farms. That milk was not Chalav
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from 1965-1972. Their other children were
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Balsam was the fourth of ten children. His parents were Jacob Balsam (1850?-1923?) and Bliema Necha Emmer (1860?-1932?). Balsam's three older siblings were Jacob's children from his first wife, Sarah Emmer, older sister of Bliema Necha, who was married to Jacob until her death (around 1878).
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on his farm, Congregation B’nei Jacob, for which he was the sole support, and gave generously to charitable causes.
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