Chabad at La Costa community member Adeline Glovsky Hale passed away on August 31, 2022. She was 87. Adeline was born into an Orthodox Jewish family in Portland, Maine, in May 1935. The family had emigrated from the Ukraine. Addy, or Channah to her Jewish friends, grew up in a close-knit family where Yiddish was […]
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Obituaries & memorials, San Diego County
SAN DIEGO — Daniel Brodsky, originally of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and an influential member of the San Diego Jewish community, passed away peacefully at The Gardens of Blenman Elm in Tucson, Arizona, on September 19, 2022, at the age of 87. He was born to Frances and Israel Brodsky on August 1,1935 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He
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Obituaries & memorials, San Diego County
By Jacob Kamaras LA JOLLA, California — Michael Rabin — beloved son, brother, friend, and community member — passed away on May 14 at home in La Jolla. He was 42. Born in Seattle on October 18, 1979, Michael was arguably best known for his vibrant, inimitable, unforgettable smile — a smile that made countless
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Jacob Kamaras, Obituaries & memorials, San Diego County
Rhea Joyce Shifrin Goot passed away Sept. 12, 2021, in Laguna Woods, California. She was 85. Born in Chicago on Oct. 26, 1936, Rhea attended South Shore High School and the University of Illinois at Navy Pier. She raised her children in Chicago, Phoenix, and San Diego. She completed her undergraduate degree at Arizona State University,
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By Sandra Scheller CHULA VISTA, California — Holocaust survivor Harry Rosen passed on April 7, 2022. Born on August 9, 1923, he is now next to his wife, Zipporah Rosen, in Israel. He is survived by his son, Amnon who lives in Israel. This video shows his final days and now burial in Israel: For
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Morris Casuto, the Anti-Defamation League regional director who defended San Diego County’s Jewish community against antisemites while forging good relations with other ethnic and religious groups within the county, died from leukemia Friday night, February 11, at the UCSD Jacobs Medical Center. Graveside funeral services for Casuto, 79, will be conducted at 2 p.m., Tuesday, at El Camino Memorial Park. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Richard Lerner, the masterful biochemist who guided Scripps Research on its way to becoming an elite center for biomedical science and helped develop Humira, the highest-selling therapeutic drug in the world last year, died on Dec. 2. He was 83. The private, nonprofit institute told the San Diego Union-Tribune that Lerner died of cancer at his home in La Jolla. [San Diego Union-Tribne]
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Obituaries & memorials, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
I flew to London last Wednesday, to say goodbye to my 97-year-old Grandpa. Although I usually see my grandparents half a dozen times a year, the pandemic has made it so that I haven’t been able to see them for two and half years. I entered their new assisted living apartment and went straight to my grandfather’s bed. Without hesitation I began to sing our favorite Yiddish song “Oy vey fein”. Immediately he chimed in and sang with me for about fifteen seconds. [Cantor Hanan Liberman]
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I created the Jaclyn Beth Kaufman Tauber Memorial Fund through the Jewish Community Foundation to honor the memory of my beautiful daughter Jackie, she was my best friend. Jackie had the ability to connect with people on a very personal level, especially children. Jackie was creatively gifted. A master puppeteer, she was a member of the San Diego Guild of Puppetry, a non-profit organization created to educate through the magic of Puppet Theater [Dale Kaufman]
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Jonathan Adelman, Ph.D., a past president of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, died Friday, Oct. 29, SPME announced. [SPME}
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Middle East, Obituaries & memorials, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Heidi Gantwerk, Interim President & CEO of the Jewish Federation of San Diego County, and Jack Maizel, Board Chair of the Federation, today issued the following announcement regarding an upcoming memorial service for former Federation CEO Michael Jeser, who died July 24: Friends, In observance of the conclusion of Sheloshim
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Obituaries & memorials, San Diego CountyThe family of Michael Lieb Jeser, the former president and chief executive officer of the Jewish Federation of San Diego County, has submitted the following obituary, which supplements with more personal information the obituary that appeared on this website previously. {Jeser Family]
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Obituaries & memorials, San Diego CountyMichael Jeser died Saturday, July 24, from the esophogeal cancer that had prompted him to go on leave as president and chief executive officer of the Jewish Federation of San Diego County. [Donald H. Harrison]
Family, colleagues, and staff at Father Joe’s Villages were saddened to announce the passing of Father Joe Carroll who died early morning Sunday, July 11. The President Emeritus of Father Joe’s Villages was 80. [News Release from Father Joe’s Villages]
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