W hen Heshie Zinman visited his buddies - HIV/AIDS patients in Pennsylvania Hospital - in the mid-1980s, delivering their food trays or just saying hi, he would hold his breath, sneaking out of the room into the hall or bathroom to suck in a gulp of air. Beth Ahavah founder Jerry Silverman (left) and other Beth Ahavah members in front of their Letitia Street location in 2007 | From The Jewish Exponent archives
