“Chacham” Yom Tov Yedid, the oldest Rabbi in the Syrian Jewish community in the US, died on Wednesday night in New York. He was 93. In his younger years, Rabbi Yedid served as the chief Rabbi of the famed and ancient Jewish community in Aleppo Syria, while it was still thriving and growing, before pogroms […]
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Jewish History, Middle East, Obituaries & memorialsMichail Tochman, the last known survivor of the Odessa Ghetto and Concentration camp died Wednesday, July 28, of complication at 90 years of age. His recounting of life under German and Romanian occupation and the concentration camp where he was one of only 7 survivors is here. He wrote it, my sister translated his text. —
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LA JOLLA, California (Press Release) –Known for her vibrant personality, community leadership, sense of humor, creativity and, most importantly, her good work, Mickey Stern succumbed to cancer on July 1. Mickey is survived by her children, Bob Sturm and Melanie Sturm, son-in-law Marc Zachary, and her beloved grandson Zane Zachary. Her much-loved sisters – Dorothy Dimond,
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By Jerry Klinger July 18, 1947, in international waters off the coast of Sinai, a shadowing British battle fleet attacked an unarmed American Chesapeake Bay steamer, the President Warfield. They had been shadowing the lumbering vessel since she left Sete in France. A warning to stop and submit to boarding came from the light cruiser
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Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, Middle East, Obituaries & memorials, USAHillary Clinton’s campaign on Tuesday rebuked comments by pro-Palestinian Jewish journalist Max Blumenthal, son of longtime aide Sidney Blumenthal, regarding the recent death of Holocaust survivor and political activist Elie Wiesel. “Secretary Clinton emphatically rejects these offensive, hateful, and patently absurd statements about Elie Wiesel,” Jake Sullivan, senior policy adviser to the presumptive Democratic presidential
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Obituaries & memorials, USACHICAGO — Abner Mikva was turned down in his first attempt at civic duty with a line that became embedded in Chicago’s political lore, “We don’t want nobody nobody sent.” Undeterred, the young, liberal outsider from Hyde Park forged ahead for a sterling career as a state legislator, congressman, federal appellate judge and presidential adviser,
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By Stanley Tiger SAN DIEGO–How does one mourn the passing of a prophet? Elie Wiesel was as close to a prophet as we can get in the modern world. It was not so much the winning of the Nobel Peace Prize that impressed me. It certainly put him on the map and made him a
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Jewish History, Obituaries & memorialsElie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor whose book Night became an important part of school curricula and was read by countless young people, died Saturday at 87, according to Haaretz.com. “My goal is to sensitize the desensitized, world leaders first among them,” Wiesel told Newsweek in 2008. Wiesel was absent from an event on May 5
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Jewish History, Obituaries & memorialsA formerly ultra-Orthodox woman who was found dead in her car on Sunday after apparently taking her own life days earlier, had written a short autobiography describing the rigors of living within the Gur Hasidic sect and the pain she felt when her daughters cut ties with her over her choice to give up religion.
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Middle East, Obituaries & memorialsNEW YORK (JNS.org) — Albert Klass, a co-founder of the widely read New York City-based newspaper The Jewish Press, died last Friday at his home Brooklyn, the Orthodox-Jewish news website Voz Is Neias reported. Klass was 105. Klass co-founded The Jewish Press in 1960 with his brother Rabbi Sholom Klass, who died in 2000. Albert
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NEW YORK (WJC) — The World Jewish Congress mourns the passing of veteran Israeli diplomat Mordechai Arbell. Arbell was for a long time chairman of the World Jewish Congress Research Institute in Jerusalem and in addition a founding board member of the Israel Council on Foreign Relations ICFR). He passed away on Monday in Jerusalem at the age of 87.
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Editor’s Note: Following is a eulogy of Stanley Korn delivered by his son, Dr. Jeffrey Korn, on Tuesday, May 24, 2016, at Greenwood Cemetery in San Diego. By Jeffrey Korn Our dad passed away Saturday afternoon, May 21st. It has been a blessing for me to know him and enjoy him for 67 years. Dad
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David Ogul, Obituaries & memorialsMorley Safer, a longtime reporter for CBS’ “60 Minutes,” has died, the network confirmed Thursday. Safer, 84, died at his home in Manhattan. He was the longest-serving correspondent at CBS News. Funeral arrangements are private, CBS said, adding that a memorial service will be announced at a later date. Due to declining health, he announced
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Obituaries & memorialsBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Some forty years ago a member of the congregation in London I then served told me that as he and his wife were getting old and had no children, they wanted to leave the little money they had to a good cause in Israel. I brought them in touch with
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