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RALPH SEELIG, a successful distributor of arts and crafts, passed away on Thursday, August 15, 2024. He was 93.
A native of New Orleans, on April 26, 1931, he was a graduate of Isidore Newman School and then graduated from...
SANDRA BRENER ROSENTHAL, a professor of Philosophy at Loyola University for more than three decades, died on July 22 at her home in Denver. She was 88.
Rosenthal will forever be remembered as a trailblazer, a gifted and world-renowned philosopher...
ALAN BERLIN, an early cable TV broadcaster, who established America’s Shopping Channel as part of the Cox Cable channel offerings – a forerunner of national channels such as QVC – died on July 18 after a lengthy battle with cancer...
By RON KAMPEAS
(JTA) — WASHINGTON — Martin Indyk, the Jewish academic who brought intellectualism to pro-Israel advocacy and endured heartbreak as a U.S. diplomat committed to bringing peace to his beloved Israel, has died.
Indyk, 73, died Thursday, the...
By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL and CURT SCHLEIER
(JTA) — Ruth Westheimer, the diminutive Holocaust survivor and Israeli military veteran who charmed and educated millions of listeners as the taboo-breaking radio sex therapist “Dr. Ruth,” died on Friday at her home in Manhattan....
BEN KRESTEEL, a jewelry salesman associated with Lee Michaels Fine Jewelry and Zales Jewelers, died on Wednesday, July 30. He was 80.
Kresteel grew up in Hattiesburg, MS and graduated from Hattiesburg High School. He later attended the University of...
JOAN DEAN BAIN, a homemaker and community volunteer, passed away peacefully at her home on July 5, 2024, from complications with ALS.
A native of Detroit, she worked briefly as a legal secretary when she met her fture husband and...
By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL
(JTA) — Kinky Friedman, the cigar-chomping, mustachioed Texan country singer and mystery novelist whose body of work often seemed like the un-kosher marriage of the Borscht Belt and the Bible Belt, died June 27 from complications of Parkinson’s...
SHEILA FENTON, a graphic artist, jewelry designer and business woman, died in New Orleans on Sat., June 22. She was 71.
A New Orleans native, she attended Gentilly Terrace School and F. W. Gregory before graduating from Kennedy High School....
LOUIS MAURICE STERN, a general contractor, investment advisor and onetime salesman, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, June 12, 2024. He was 97.
Always a gregarious and optimistic gentleman, Stern was born in Monroe, where he graduated from Neville High School....
