Jed was a member of Mensa®, the International "High IQ" Society.
Jed Barish died six weeks after being diagnosed with cancer. He was an exuberantly intelligent, adventuresome, entrepreneurial guy, who shared with his sister Leora the conviction that he could do pretty much anything it crossed his mind to try. He tried a lot. As a teenager he fled the U.S. and landed in Korea, married a Korean woman, Suncha, had a son, Daniel, made and lost large amounts of money in enterprises of many kinds on several continents. He built bridges and roads for the US Military in Vietnam (he was the contractor and the engineer, though he'd never done either job before); he opened stores in major Las Vegas casinos; for several years he ran a highly lucrative phone sex business; and he got into a beef with the Mafia over a cat shelter. At the end of his life, having lost everything except "a few residential properties", he not only helped his tenants pay their rent, he invented jobs for them so they could feel like they'd earned it. He was the only one of his kind. We miss him.
Jed Barish died six weeks after being diagnosed with cancer. He was an exuberantly intelligent, adventuresome, entrepreneurial guy, who shared with his sister Leora the conviction that he could do pretty much anything it crossed his mind to try. He tried a lot. As a teenager he fled the U.S. and landed in Korea, married a Korean woman, Suncha, had a son, Daniel, made and lost large amounts of money in enterprises of many kinds on several continents. He built bridges and roads for the US Military in Vietnam (he was the contractor and the engineer, though he'd never done either job before); he opened stores in major Las Vegas casinos; for several years he ran a highly lucrative phone sex business; and he got into a beef with the Mafia over a cat shelter. At the end of his life, having lost everything except "a few residential properties", he not only helped his tenants pay their rent, he invented jobs for them so they could feel like they'd earned it. He was the only one of his kind. We miss him.
Jed was a member of Mensa®, the International "High IQ" Society.
Jed Barish died six weeks after being diagnosed with cancer. He was an exuberantly intelligent, adventuresome, entrepreneurial guy, who shared with his sister Leora the conviction that he could do pretty much anything it crossed his mind to try. He tried a lot. As a teenager he fled the U.S. and landed in Korea, married a Korean woman, Suncha, had a son, Daniel, made and lost large amounts of money in enterprises of many kinds on several continents. He built bridges and roads for the US Military in Vietnam (he was the contractor and the engineer, though he'd never done either job before); he opened stores in major Las Vegas casinos; for several years he ran a highly lucrative phone sex business; and he got into a beef with the Mafia over a cat shelter. At the end of his life, having lost everything except "a few residential properties", he not only helped his tenants pay their rent, he invented jobs for them so they could feel like they'd earned it. He was the only one of his kind. We miss him.
Jed Barish died six weeks after being diagnosed with cancer. He was an exuberantly intelligent, adventuresome, entrepreneurial guy, who shared with his sister Leora the conviction that he could do pretty much anything it crossed his mind to try. He tried a lot. As a teenager he fled the U.S. and landed in Korea, married a Korean woman, Suncha, had a son, Daniel, made and lost large amounts of money in enterprises of many kinds on several continents. He built bridges and roads for the US Military in Vietnam (he was the contractor and the engineer, though he'd never done either job before); he opened stores in major Las Vegas casinos; for several years he ran a highly lucrative phone sex business; and he got into a beef with the Mafia over a cat shelter. At the end of his life, having lost everything except "a few residential properties", he not only helped his tenants pay their rent, he invented jobs for them so they could feel like they'd earned it. He was the only one of his kind. We miss him.
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