Jewish WTC question

Factual Questions
1

I heard or read that there was a frum (observant) guy who was trapped in the WTC. The story goes that he called his rebbe, and asked him if it was better to jump than to stay and burn. His reasoning was that if he jumped, the authorities would find his body and his wife would not be an aguna (a woman unable to re-marry).

Has anyone else heard this? Is it true?

2

Go to:

http://www.ottmall.com/mj_ht_arch/v35/index.html

and scroll down the topics list to WTC. You’ll see a few links there to the articles posted on the Mail-Jewish email list about this story, and discussions of its origins.