Jacob-Dorfman-Obituary

Jacob Robert Dorfman

Washington, District of Columbia

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DIED
August 27, 2025
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Washington, District of Columbia

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On Wednesday, August 27, 2025, JACOB ROBERT "Bob" DORFMAN of Silver Spring, MD. Beloved husband of the late Celia Shapiro. Devoted father of Theodore Dorfman, Ann (Kenneth) Jamieson, Sydney Passin; and stepfather of Lee (Yael Traum) and Ruth (Robert Eubanks) Futrovsky. Loving grandfather of...

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Our dear Bob is no longer. Bob and my late husband Marc Nerlove started out as locker room friends at the University of Maryland some time in the early 2000s. This evolved into a friendship between the four of us - Bob and Celia and Marc and me. The physicist and the economist developed an instant and deep rapport over discussions about Dutch art, contemporary Israel (Bob and Celia were our guides to developments and politics), music and literature, university politics, Indian food (not just...