Marty Zatzman, 71, a teacher and musician considered the heart and soul of Nova Scotias Camp Kadimah [Video]

Marty Zatzman was a musician and science teacher whose time at Camp Kadimah in Nova Scotia—first as a camper and later as a director—shaped his life.

Zatzman died in Toronto on Yom Kippur morning, Oct. 12. He was 71.

His friend Les Aaron knew him as “a great musician, a very smart guy but very humble. He was a rocket scientist, and taught science. He was a businessman. He was good at a lot of things.

“But music made him beloved to all.”

And his love of music created a backdrop that his son Noah describes as “the soul of his soul.”

Marty attended Kadimah as a camper in the 1960s, met his wife Belarie there in the 1970s, took his leadership skills from Kadimah to Toronto as an educator in the 1980s—and then returned to Kadimah as camp director in the 1990s.

Michael Soberman, co-chair of Kadimah’s board, worked with Zatzman and was part of their …