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JUSTIN ROBINSON SMITH, a celebrated visual artist who won several awards for his inventive work as a primitive and avant-garde artist in paintings and mixed media, died on June 18, 2023 in New Orleans. He was 42.
Born in Baton...
By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL
(JTA) — In an essay she wrote in June, Marlena Spieler reminisced about her grandfather’s neighborhood in San Francisco in one long, exuberant sentence:
It was basically a small shtetl transplanted to San Francisco, with delis redolent...
BARBARA MARVIN BRESLER, a former commercial real estate agent, passed away on June 28, 2023, surrounded by her family. She was 76.
Born in Olla, Louisiana, she was self-proclaimed as “prissy, petite, and proud of it.” She married Owen Bresler...
By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL
(JTA) — Alan Arkin knew he was going to be an actor from the age of five.
“Every film I saw, every play, every piece of music fed an unquenchable need to turn myself into something other...
JULANNE ROSE (HASPEL) ISSACSON, the former executive director of Jewish Family Service of New Orleans (JFS) for more than two decades, died peacefully in her home on Saturday, May 27, 2023. She was 98.
She spent most of her career...
By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL
(JTA) — Daniel Ellsberg, the military analyst whose leak of the classified “Pentagon Papers” exposed American deceit about the Vietnam War, led to a landmark Supreme Court on press freedoms and inspired a White House backlash that...
By JACOB GURVIS
(JTA) — Ben Helfgott, one of two known Holocaust survivors to go on to compete in the Olympics, died Friday at 93.
Helfgott survived the Holocaust as a teenager, and he went on to become a champion...
By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL
(JTA) — Robert Gottlieb, the legendary literary editor who shepherded into print and best-sellerdom such 20th-century classics as Joseph Heller’s “Catch-22,” Robert Caro’s “The Power Broker” and Chaim Potok’s “The Chosen,” died Wednesday at age 92.
Few...
BELLE BROCK ADELMAN-CANNON, an exceptional 17-year-old student at Benjamin Franklin High School, who made an impressive mark in her short years, was killed in a tragic accident on Saturday, June 3.
Adelman-Cannon, who identified as non-binary with they/them pronouns, died...
JUSTIN REID EHRENWERTH, an internationally recognized expert on coastal policy known for leading the Louisiana-based Water Institute, died on May 11 at his home in New Orleans. He was 44.
Appointed as the second president of the Water Institute in...
