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ALVIN SAMUELS, a retired engineer and chemist, who had worked as a deep drilling engineer before founding his own companies for treating hydrogen sulfide in oil and natural gas, died at East Jefferson Hospital on Friday, Dec. 30, after a...
By RON KAMPEAS
(JTA) — Rabbi Chaim Druckman, whose mission was to unite the people of Israel, was father to a movement now poised to sow some of its deepest divisions in decades.
Druckman, who died Sunday at 90 after...
ALLEN CARL WEISS, a retired accountant, died in Ridgeland, MS. He was 88.
He served his nation during the Korean Conflict and was honorably discharged.
He is survived by his wife of 68 years, Honorine Karno Weiss, his...
NEAL LARRY MORRIS, a certified public accountant since 1976, who has practiced for Ericksen Krentel Consultants for the past 35 years, died on Friday, December 16, 2022 after a brief illness. He was 69.
A native of Gadsen, Alabama, he...
ALLAN L. KATZ, a respected journalist and a public relations, political, and crisis management consultant, passed away peacefully with his family by his bedside, on December 12 at Ochsner Hospital. He was 84.
A native of Columbus, Ohio, Katz graduated...
By JACOB GURVIS and RON KAMPEAS
(JTA) — It was the kind of story that Tom Tugend loved to tell, except he lived it.
He left Berlin, aged 13, on Adolf Hitler’s birthday, in 1939, driven out by the ideology...
Scott “Scooter” Frank, the vice president of Sales and Marketing at Rustic Bakery, passed away on December 1, 2022, following a battle with esophageal cancer.
Frank was always interested in food and cooking. A native of Baltimore, he moved to...
JOYCE LaZAR ELLIS, a community volunteer, realtor and dedicated matriarch of her family, died peacefully on December 2, 2022. She was 91.
She had an incredible outlook on life with a positive attitude that reflected in everything she did. She...
By RON KAMPEAS
(JTA) — Robert Crumb put the “x” in comix by setting to paper his basest sexual longings, including strong-legged Jewish women who were cowgirls and who went by the name Honeybunch Kaminski.
So when an actual strong-legged...
JACK ANTIN HUDSON, D.D.S, died peacefully on Friday, November 25, 2022, surrounded by his family. He was 94.
A New Orleans native, he graduated from Georgia Military Academy in 1948 before attending Loyola University where he earned his Doctor of...
