NEW 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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Obituaries & memorials
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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International, Middle East, Obituaries & memorials
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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Middle East, Obituaries & memorials“The Witness” finally closed his eyes last night OCEANSIDE, California — Rev. Samuel “Billy” Kyles died on Tuesday evening, April 26, in Memphis at the age of 81. For the last 48 years of his life, he had been both burdened and motivated by his personal witnessing of a most barbaric act. Kyles directly beheld the
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Obituaries & memorials, USA
Popular actress Doris Roberts, who was best known for her role as matriarch Marie Barone in Everybody Loves Raymond, has passed away at the age of 90. According to a spokesperson for the family, she remained healthy and active and died in her sleep. Roberts was born to a Russian-Jewish family in St. Louis and
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Obituaries & memorials, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
Nobel Prize winning author of Fateless BUDAPEST (JNS.org)– Hungarian writer Imre Kertesz, a Holocaust survivor who won the the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature for his fiction work, died on Thursday in Budapest at age 86 after a long battle with illness, the Magveto Kiado publishing firm said. Kertesz was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Obituaries & memorials
LOS ANGELES (JNS.org) — Jewish actor and comedian Garry Shandling died Thursday at the age of 66, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) said. Shandling is best known for working on the cable television comedy show “The Larry Sanders Show,” which aired from 1992-98. He began his entertainment career by writing for sitcoms such
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Obituaries & memorials, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO –Eighteen years ago tomorrow, March 8, 1998, the Winter Garden Theatre in New York, then home to the mega-hit Cats, had its lights go dim. The music stopped, the dancing halted as the news spread of the death of 44 year-old artiste, Laurie Beechman. For longer than anyone, she
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Obituaries & memorialsBy Rabbi Ben Kamin OCEANSIDE, California — My father, unrealized, died forty years ago today. It was forty years ago today, March 2, 1976: he dropped dead and left no real trace of personal history. He was just 45 and painfully unrealized. I keep a graying, wood-framed picture of my long-departed father on the mantle.
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Obituaries & memorials
JERUSALEM (WJC) — Samuel Willenberg, the last survivor of the Treblinka death camp who died on Friday in Israel at the age of 93, beat the odds.. About 870,000 people, most of them Jews, died in the gas chambers at Treblinka. It was the second largest Nazi German death camp after Auschwitz-Birkenau. “Samuel Willenberg wa a hero
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International, Jewish History, Obituaries & memorials
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (WJC)– Manuel Tenenbaum, the long-time head of the WJC’s Buenos Aires office and executive director of the Latin American Jewish Congress (LAJC) from 1978 to 2007, has died here in his home city at the age of 81. World Jewish Congress CEO Robert Singer declared: “Manuel Tenenbaum was greatly respected and admired
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International, Obituaries & memorialsBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — A few days ago I received an unusual email. It came from someone I had never met, but whom I knew was the person who was looking after an old friend from long ago. In the mail I was informed that Inge was bedridden, near to death, unable to
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Obituaries & memorials, USA