Film critic Gene Siskel was remembered at his funeral as a man devoted to Judaism and his family. During his eulogy, the officiating rabbi said Siskel’s last appearance in public was to attend his daughter’s Bat Mitzvah in January. Siskel died Saturday at 53 following complications from a brain tumor.
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