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DAVID S. SCHWERD, a retired architect who spent most of his life in New York and its suburbs, died on August 8, 2020, after having located to New Orleans at the end of 2019. He was 94.
An professional architect...
SUNNY ROBERT SOLOMON, an IT consultant, died suddenly on August 2, 2020. He was 41.
A New Orleans native and a member of Congregation Gates of Prayer, he was also associated with JNOLA, the Jewish singles group associated with the...
JACOB “JAKE” COHEN, a realtor with a passion for life, passed away peacefully at his home on August 1, 2020. He was 88.
A native New Orleanian, Cohen graduated from Alcee Fortier High School before attending Loyola University. While at...
NATHAN “NAT” BARRETT, a New Orleans native, who lived his entire life in the city he loved, passed away peacefully on Tuesday afternoon, August 4, 2020 of COVID-19 at East Jefferson Hospital. He was 94.
Barrett was a graduate of...
GERTRUDE KONIARSKI LEVITAN, a longtime resident of New Orleans, who left after Hurricane Katrina and the resultant flooding ravaged her hometown, died on July 27, 2020, in Raleigh, N.C. She was 90.
Levitan always had an...
PEGGY L. COHN, a resident of New Orleans over the course of the past five years and a native of Alabama, passed away on July 20, 2020 at her New Orleans home. Cohn, 91, was returned to her home state...
JEANNINE BURK, one of the last three remaining Holocaust survivors who made New Orleans their home after World War II, passed away on Saturday, July 18, 2020. She was 80.
Originally hailing from Brussels, Belgium, Burk was a “hidden child”...
(JTA) — Bertram Korn, the former editor of the Philadelphia Jewish Exponent and longtime Jewish activist, died in July 5 from COVID-19. He was 64.
Known to his friends as Buddy, Korn served as executive editor of the Exponent from...
SOL GOTHARD, a retired judge for the State of Louisiana, Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal , and the longtime New Orleans post commander of the Jewish War Veterans (JWV), died after a lengthy illness, on Sunday, July 5, at his home....
(JTA) – Until the last day of his life, Carl Reiner was tweeting about some of his favorite topics: politics, comedy and the twists and turns he experienced over decades as one of the world’s greatest living funnymen.
Reiner died Monday...
